Guggenheim Bilbao: ‘The Greatest Building of our Time’

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 07.01.10 | 3:12 PM ET

Philip Johnson declared that of Frank Gehry’s iconic Guggenheim museum in 1998, and 52 experts polled by Vanity Fair just agreed.

Jim Benning is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.

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Gary Arndt 07.01.10 | 3:56 PM ET

I was just there last month. If I had to vote, I would pick Santiago Calatrava’s Palu de Musica in Valencia, Spain

Alex 07.01.10 | 4:05 PM ET

Love the photo - an amazing place. I’m lucky to see it everyday - and I never get tired of it.

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