2024-04-27T13:59:17-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150008232/screen-print-56-diana-balmori-is-interviewed-by-mas-context-about-bilbao-s-abandoibarra-master-plan Julia Ingalls 2017-05-19T12:11:00-04:00 >2017-10-11T12:06:29-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/gx/gxnoq236nrhlpzn4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The story of Bilbao&mdash;and its&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/5541/bilbao-effect" target="_blank">Architectural Wonder&trade;</a>&mdash;has been told to the point of clich&eacute;. Yet in <a href="http://www.mascontext.com/tag/bilbao/" target="_blank">MAS Context</a>'s <em>BILBAO</em> issue, the familiar trope is given new life and depth as a series of architects, designers, and denizens of the city explain how they helped to transform this Spanish industrial town into a case study for holistic, rejuvenating design. In this excerpt from the issue for <em><a href="http://archinect.com/features/tag/354209/screen-print" target="_blank">Screen/Print</a></em>, Iker Gil interviews the late, great Diana Balmori about her firm's work on the Abandoibarra master plan.</p>