Al Bahr Towers Responsive Façade
Twin cylinders wrapped in 2,000 folding umbrellas — a mashrabiya that opens and closes with the sun.
Abu Dhabi
Aldar Headquarters (The Coin Building)
A 121-metre glass disc standing on its edge — the Middle East's first circular skyscraper, and its most-photographed silhouette.
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.
Etihad Arena
A woven gold shell on the Yas Bay waterfront — shade by day, lantern by night, 18,000 seats inside.
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.
The Liwa Desert
The northern edge of the Rub' al Khali — the largest continuous sand sea on Earth.
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