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.
Abu Dhabi
Masdar City Central Park Camel Sculpture
A camel in twisted metal with an impossibly stretched middle, standing in a solar-powered park.
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 Founder's Memorial — The Constellation
A portrait of Sheikh Zayed made of 1,327 floating solids that only resolves into a face from certain angles.
The Wisdom Garden, Umm Al Emarat Park
Thirty of Sheikh Zayed's sayings cut into ten marble walls, in a garden of native planting and water.
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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