Panama Still Waiting on That Building of the Future
Our own Brendan Spiegel is down in Panama this week and will be reporting back on all that he's seen and done. Whether or not he's wearing a Panama Hat, we can't say. But if you have any questions or suggestions for him, let us know.
Flip open any guidebook to Panama and you'll read that the country's biggest project since the canal is getting set to open "next year." The attraction in question is the Bridge of Life Museum, a celebration of natural biodiversity housed in a futuristic building designed by starchitect Frank Gehry. (You can check out the crazy design online).
The museum's backers hope the Bridge of Life will do for Panama City what Gehry's Guggenheim did for Bilbao, namely, give it a permanent spot on the global cultural map. And Panama seems to have all the tools in place.
As a tiny sliver of a country with thousands of unique examples of wildlife, it’s the perfect place to host such a museum. Gehry is passionate about the project (his wife is Panamanian), and the underdeveloped Amador Causeway area, a narrow sliver of land jutting out into Panama Bay, is ready for construction.
So it's all fallen into place. Except, of course, building the damn thing, which has been scheduled to open "next year" going on a half-decade now. We can report that construction is most certainly now underway, although it looks a good ways off from completion. The latest we've heard is that it's on track to open…next year.
Related Stories:
· Bridge of Life [Official Site]
· Paris Meets Port-au-Prince in Panama [Jaunted]
· Panama Field Trip [Jaunted]
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