Amador Causeway

This guide to the Amador Causeway in Panama City opens at the Biomuseo, Frank Gehry's crumpled, color-paneled building and his first project anywhere in Latin America, sitting at the causeway's entrance. It follows how Gehry ended up designing it for free after his Panamanian wife, Berta, drew him into a conversation about what to do with land the United States had just returned, and why a project announced in the early 2000s then stalled for years under changing governments. You'll hear how shipping and shaping unfamiliar steel work pushed the budget past one hundred million dollars. Walk the causeway toward the water, past the joggers and bicycle rentals, before you reach it.