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laodan discovered 17 months ago- Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World in the NYT-Arts by HASSAN FATTAH
In this land of big ambition and deep pockets, planners on Wednesday unveiled designs for an audacious multibillion-dollar cultural district whose like has never been seen in the Arab world. The designs presented here in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and one of the world's top oil producers, are to be built on an island just off the coast and include three museums designed by the celebrity architects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sprawling, spaceshiplike performing arts center designed by Zaha Hadid. Mr. Gehry's building is intended for an Adu Dhabi branch of the Guggenheim Museum featuring contemporary art and Mr. Nouvel's for a classical museum, possibly an outpost of the Louvre Museum in Paris. Mr. Ando's is to house a maritime museum reflecting the history of the Arabian gulf. Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World A Vision in the Desert
Picture by Zaha Hadid of hisu2019s design for a performing arts center for an island in Abu Dhabi. IOt's something like the tip of a cultural iceberg... see next picture.
Picture Akhtar Soomro for The New York TimesDesigns. Designs for a vast and architecturally ambitious cultural district planned for Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates.
Wow! What a display of the power of money. What a luminous transformation of money into capital for the future benefit of such a tiny place as Abu Dhabi. Modern architecture is borrowing the "no-non-sense" forms and colors of painting and sculpture. Let's hope that what fills what promises to be grandiose exhibit halls is of the same "no-non-sense" kind of stuff.
- Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World in the NYT-Arts by HASSAN FATTAH
