BBC

Before architect Frank Gehry pulled back the curtain on his Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, few tourists had heard of the industrial fishing town in northern Spain. Today Bilbao is one of Europe's hottest weekend destinations - and the one attraction on every visitor's itinerary is Gehry's breathtakingly sculpted building. His sole mark on the British landscape is minor by comparison, yet, apparently, every bit as rewarding for the California-based 75-year-old. "I didn't realise how good I was," said Gehry when asked how he felt at seeing his Maggie's Cancer Care centre in Dundee. The building is one of the first in a planned series of 13 centres dedicated to the support and complementary treatment of cancer sufferers. Each is linked to a hospital oncology unit.