Places

Sheikh Zayed Bridge

Zaha Hadid's sine wave in steel — 842 metres of dune, lit in colour that flows across the spine.

Abu Dhabi

Sheikha Fatima Park

A ladies' park from another era rebuilt as an urban forest of reclaimed materials, skate ramps and an open-air amphitheatre.

Abu Dhabi

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.

Abu Dhabi

Special Olympics Gardens

Six permanent commissions in a garden outside Manarat Al Saadiyat — including a mirrored bridge you can walk across.

Abu Dhabi

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.

Abu Dhabi

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.

Abu Dhabi

The Humans by Fatspatrol

A hundred metres of black-and-white figures in profile — dreamers, visionaries and jokers on a nightclub wall.

Abu Dhabi

The Liwa Desert

The northern edge of the Rub' al Khali — the largest continuous sand sea on Earth.

Abu Dhabi

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.

Abu Dhabi

Tolerance by Eduardo Kobra

Two thousand square metres of kaleidoscopic portraiture wrapped around a building — the largest mural in the region.

Abu Dhabi

UAE Pavilion

A gold steel sand dune shipped from Shanghai in 60 containers and rebuilt, panel by numbered panel, on Saadiyat.

Abu Dhabi

Wahat Al Karama (Oasis of Dignity)

Thirty-one aluminium tablets leaning on one another — the UAE's first war memorial, facing the Grand Mosque.

Abu Dhabi

Yas Bay Waterfront Art Trail

Twelve works along one promenade — Murakami, KAWS, four astronaut cats and a row of painted electrical substations.

Abu Dhabi

7

Richard Serra's tallest public work — seven steel plates honouring the spiritual weight of the number in Islamic culture.

Doha

8 Oryxes

A herd of Arabian oryx in the arrivals hall of Hamad International Airport.

Doha

Ain Mohammad Village

North-west desert oasis — restored Bedouin architecture, camel rides, crafts and a natural spring.

Doha

Al Jassasiya Rock Art Site

874 petroglyphs on a north-eastern plateau — dhows, ostriches, cup marks and Neolithic mystery.

Doha

Al Koot Fort

Doha Fort in the heart of the city — Ottoman origins, Qatari battlements and a museum open by appointment.

Doha

Al Rekayat Fort

Low-slung nineteenth-century fort above a freshwater well — watchtowers overlooking the Gulf coast.

Doha

Al Ruwaida Archaeological Site

Sixteenth- to eighteenth-century coastal settlement — central fort, mosques, boatyard and merchant warehouses.

Doha

Al Thaqab Fort

Coral-and-limestone fort guarding a desert well in Madinat ash Shamal — date stores and a nearby village.

Doha

Al Zubarah Archaeological Site

UNESCO-listed pearling town and fort — Qatar's best-preserved window onto eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gulf trade.

Doha

Barzan Towers

Sixteen-metre watchtowers in Umm Salal — coral walls, moon-calendar observation and Ottoman-era vigilance.

Doha

Battoula by Ghada Al Suwaidi

A Qatari woman in traditional dress, painted in the same soft pastels as the port's walls.

Doha