as residents of cities across europe in this case vienna can testify. the bike he rides is smaller and more maneuverable than a mountain bike making it ideal for stunts. and then try back the trials bike and do almost everything back flips. whatever. you have complete creative license and that's what i find fascinating about trials biking the freedom to do what you want. there are no real stipulations like there are another sports. fabio often practice is stance on this square in his home town or in spokane austria. he's been honing his skills almost every day for the past seven years. the biggest and most dangerous challenges in his repertoire are back and front flips.

crashes and falls are inevitable in this sport some tricks take years of practice to perfect. many and. when i want to overcome a new challenge first i think over what i need to accomplish the trick. what position do i need to put my body. i move around on the bar. when i go through the moves in my head and then all i can do is practice practice practice. your well so upload to stunts to youtube for over three quarters of a million subscribers get updates on his thrills and spills he also embeds the videos of his adventures in stories his breakneck doura vienna for example is his way of getting to the. volleyball championships is quickly as possible.

and when he's in the saddle two wheels are definitely faster than for. the motional reaction from people and a more intense feeding than if you just did a series of tricks. in riding down the dolomites he moved to a mountain bike hitting speeds of up to sixty kilometers per hour he thunders down impossibly rocky landscape's in northern italy. for truly perilous rides like this you need more of the skills and physical fitness . i'm the kind of guy who always looks forward to how i'll feel afterwards when i've completed a trickle line that's a big motivation. but sometimes i'll need. fifty minutes preparation

time for mental preparation mental strength is an extremely important factor. so far the only injuries he's picked up are a few bumps and scratches some sprains and a broken finger but twenty two year old is considered a rising star in the biking world and thanks to his sponsors he can now focus one hundred percent on his sporting ambitions. i always want to push myself further and try new things that nobody has done yet. so i provide my own motivation. as ambition is to do every project and every video better to have fun in the process and one way or the other to make a splash. well next up we're off to spain for

a closer look at one of europe's most stunning museums the guggenheim in bilbao has attracted twenty million visitors in the last twenty years and this year it was one of the winners at the annual cultural brands awards where the jury praised its cultural and economic impact on the city of bilbao so let's see what makes the guggenheim so special. the guggenheim museum bilbao the spectacular architecture draws of large numbers of visitors making it crucial to the local economy and spain's basque country. we came all the way over here from vancouver canada just to see the news it was time until i left the temporary exhibitions and everything life into the museums for me the museum is beautiful aspirational and inspiring curvy shapes straight and flat elements to me it's very interesting. the museum also showcases art works outdoors jeff koons puppy is

a particular favorite. and many are fascinated by louise bush was a huge spider sculpture. inside the museum more cutting edge twentieth and twenty first century artworks await the visitors the eleven thousand square metres of exhibition space drawing the crowds with temporary exhibitions of high profile names like textile artist. or video artist viola. richard serra's remarkable walk in steel sculptures are part of the museum's own permanent collection. but visitors don't come only for the art there's also exquisite basque food. the guggenheim in bilbao is the first guggenheim to offer a michelin star cuisine. the

museum run by bilbao native juan ignacio be dark day is a success story. in fashion it's maybe that's because the museum lets visitors establish a kind of relationship to the art. and that the new not enough you know that isn't possible in any other museum in the world. the architecture plays an important role . it's allowed us to showcase modern art in a unique way. the on spiralling building marked a pinnacle in the career of the u.s. canadian architect frank gehry after four years of construction work it was inaugurated in one nine hundred ninety seven as a spinoff of new york's guggenheim museum it was a risky undertaking in the one nine hundred ninety s. when bill was grappling with a decline in its local coal and steel industries not exactly fertile ground for an art museum. this was a mellow city with an economy traditionally give to steel and shipbuilding. but

those industries were in decline in unemployment was rampant. and economically the city lay in ruin. today bill by was considered a prime example of a city rejuvenated by investment in architecture and infrastructure it's prospered from tourism a phenomenon that's been dubbed the bilbao effect and more cultural institutions are coming like the os could as intro of a new renovated by french designer philippe starck. attempt bilbao effect to describe the process of reform and the transformation of the city. from within the life of the environmental social economic and cultural dimensions of this process little battler thanks tons of ira's who want to copy it all over the well. and one that is. local say the guggenheim bilbao put their city

on the world map with one point two million visitors last year the museum surpassed numbers for new york's original guggenheim that's generated thousands of jobs in bilbao but to stay successful the museum has to remain creative. light and very thin jennifer and i think that digitalization helps us connect with the public that way people can access our collections virtually and compare their visits before coming back and i think that without it but he needs to continue pursuing this path . but in the new one from the initiation people to celebrate the museum's twentieth anniversary in october light artists projected images from bill thousand dust real age on to the building's exterior. the past meets the glowing future of the guggenheim bilbao.

now while the guggenheim is routinely praised for its architectural design the style known as brutal isn't as quite often derided in fact some describe brutalist structures as giant concrete monsters the style flourished between the mid fifty's to mid seventy's in europe and was commonly used for government and office buildings critics describe these structures as cold and unappealing and the buildings are routinely demolished these days but brutal ism is making an unexpected comeback and an exhibit in frankfurt is focused on preserving this style for future generations let's find out why. the period after world war two saw the spread of massive concrete blocks in city centers around europe. the german architecture museum in frankfurt is devoting an exhibition to the construction style known as brutal ism featuring giants models.

the curators had the replicas built to showcase prime examples of brutalist buildings from around the world.