Thursday, April 3, 2008

Dubai architecture

Jean Nouvel is designing an opera house for Dubai and a branch of the Louvre next door in Abu Dhabi; the Oslo firm Snohetta has designed a “gateway”; Zaha Hadid is building a skyscraper and a massive office complex, (she's doing the opera house in Abu Dhabi); in January Norman Foster revealed plans to build an eco-city for half a million people in the Persian Gulf, and, last week, designs for the Abu Dhabi World Trade centre; and, busiest of all, there's Rem Koolhaas, with office complexes galore and a his new Waterfront City, unveiled this month.read more at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article3620340.ece