Frank Gehry. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

map: Saadiyat Island, Cultural District, United Arab Emirates
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map: Saadiyat Cultural District

Quotes & Facts:

- "The site itself, virtually on the water or close to the water on all sides, in a desert landscape with the beautiful sea and the light quality of the place suggested some of the direction.” —Frank Gehry

- The building site also serves as a manmade breakwater configured to protect the island’s pristine north beach zone

- it's the largest museum in a series of cultural institutions planned as part of the Saadiyat Cultural District

- Tadao Ando, Hadid, Nouvel and Foster projects in same island.