the Basques are increasingly supportive of the project, notes Harrity. The building has also been promoted internationally through presentations in Madrid Brussels, Paris, New York and Venice's 1986 Architecture Biennale; in addition, "Frank Gehry in Bilbao: The Museum in the Expanded Field was opened with he Peggy Guggenlucim collection during the 1995 Venice Biennale. The GMB is a dramatically scaled limestone-and-uta nium-clad conglonueration of vertical and horizantal volumes, united off enter by an enormous glass-walked atrium and topped by cluster of oranic fomas sug gesting a metallic nuwer, as Gehry calls it. At 256,000 square feet, it is the Pritzker Prize winner's largest museum date (his best known the Frederick R.