Abrahamic Family House
A mosque, a church and a synagogue as three identical 30-metre cubes — equality argued in Omani limestone.
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi Central Bus Station
Mint-green concrete wings folded over a 1989 terminal — Gulf modernism still doing its day job.
Al Ain Oasis & the Falaj Channels
147,000 date palms watered by channels dug three thousand years ago — and still running.
Al Maqta Bridge
A pale blue steel truss from 1968 — the first permanent way onto the island, and still carrying traffic.
Al Maqta Watchtower
A coral-stone tower on an islet in the channel — one of Abu Dhabi's oldest buildings, and you cannot reach it.
Souk Qaryat Al Beri Canals
Wooden abras threading man-made canals between an Arabian souk and a Venetian one, with the Grand Mosque across the water.
UAE Pavilion
A gold steel sand dune shipped from Shanghai in 60 containers and rebuilt, panel by numbered panel, on Saadiyat.
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