ADGM Building (Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange)
A glass hall the size of a football pitch, lifted 27 metres into the air on four granite piers above a circular pool.
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ADNOC Headquarters
342 metres of granite-framed restraint on the Corniche — a monumental arch standing against the Gulf.
Capital Gate (The Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi)
An 18-degree lean, four times Pisa's — a skyscraper built deliberately off-balance and held there by steel.
Emirates Palace Domes & Archways
A kilometre of sand-coloured palace under 114 domes — built for a summit, opened as a hotel, lit like a jewel.
Flower Parent and Child by Takashi Murakami
Ten metres of gold leaf and grinning flowers on the waterfront — one of Murakami's largest works anywhere.
Hudayriyat Bridge
The UAE's first cable-stayed bridge — 1.3 kilometres out to an island that was closed to the public until it opened.
Sheikh Zayed Bridge
Zaha Hadid's sine wave in steel — 842 metres of dune, lit in colour that flows across the spine.
The Emerging Man (The Giant)
An eight-metre head and two vast hands surfacing out of the Gulf, as though something enormous is climbing out.
The Liwa Desert
The northern edge of the Rub' al Khali — the largest continuous sand sea on Earth.
Wahat Al Karama (Oasis of Dignity)
Thirty-one aluminium tablets leaning on one another — the UAE's first war memorial, facing the Grand Mosque.
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