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...anything, Giavazzi says, Santander's move in Britain demonstrates how many barriers remain to such transnational deals. Santander had already been blocked from taking over France's Société Générale in 1999 because the bid came from abroad. When Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria tried to merge with Italy's UniCredito Italiano the same year, Italy's regulator, too, balked at the idea of an Italian bank falling into foreign hands. In Abbey's case, U.K. competition regulations may have given Santander the edge...
...most prominent architects, no one's work looks much like anyone else's. No one presumes to be handing down, like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once did, the chief forms from which all others are supposed to flow. But with the singular spectacle of his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain--all that glistening titanium, those war-whooping arabesques--Frank Gehry in 1997 undid everyone's idea of what a building looks like. Ever since, his greatest influence has been this: he has profoundly reordered the idea of constructed space among people who don't think about buildings...
After being led to believe that he needed to use the bathroom but that upon unzipping he would find his penis missing, Vasco S. Bilbao-Bastida ’06 returned on stage exclaiming, “It wasn’t there...
...felt like a force was pulling me to do things that I might otherwise not do so quickly,” said Bilbao-Bastida afterwards. “I roughly remember almost everything; some things are clearer than others...
Under current laws, if Frank Gehry wanted to build his Guggenheim here in Paris instead of Bilbao, he wouldn't be allowed