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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will be the protagonist of the first episode of Engineering Connections, or the National Geographic series that the channel is premiering on Tuesday, January 12 at 22,15 pm.

The series, presented by British Richard Hammond, will travel through some of the wonders of modern engineering, analysing which kind of relations may exist between their structure and other inventions of mankind. Therefore, among other curiosities, the programme will show the connections between the Guggenheim and Russian submarines, the facts that link the Hong Kong airport with the spies of the Cold War, or what do the Sydney opera and gas masks have in common.

According to the staff of the Engineering Connections series, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is a brilliant "work of constructivism featuring curves covered with limestone and titanium."

"The epic fantasy of Frank Gehry looks like a ship if seen from the river, as a tribute to the port spirit of the city. However, if we look from the other side, the building turns into a fish, and if we observe it from the top we have the impression of being watching a flower," they say during the episode.