Activists stop Spanish Guggenheim from building in bird sanctuary

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After more than a year of street protests against the Guggenheim’s plan to “bring art into nature,” the museum’s board of trustees voted last night to kill the project. “Guggenheim Urdaibai” would have seen buildings, walkways and installations go up inside one of northern Spain’s most important migratory bird stopover points. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports.

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