krens seems to have found ambitions to match his own in Bilbao, Spain's fourth largest city and home to nearly half of the 2.1 million inhabitants of the Basque Country, a tiny (less that half the size of Delaware )wedge-shaped area on the Iterian peninsu la's Atlantic coast. There, the new Guggenheim Museum forms part of a remarkably bold urban-renewal scheme, conceived by the Basques in 1989, that is intended to transfom this deteriorated port, gravely afflicted by accumulated debts, a 2arpercent ment rate, industrial pollution and outmoded steel and iron trades, into a center of clean industries (service, financial and high tech) with important touristic and cultural offerings. Plans feature star architects and concentrate efforts in three main areas: 1) a cleared up and newty expanded commercial and recreational port 2) new public transport facilities including a subway (Noman Foster), an airport (Santiago Calatrava) and a central transport hub for the subway, trains and city buses was designed by the late James Stirling