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Photo Gallery Art in the Desert

Abu Dhabi has apirations to become the capital of the international art scene. Star architects have been commissioned to build avant-garde museums in the desert metropolis.
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Zaha Hadid's Performing Arts Centre is an amoeba-like structure covered with a netlike window structure.

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Hadid is considered the high priest of deconstructive architecture. This image shows a simulated aerial view of her proposal for the Performing Arts Centre.

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This is Frank O. Gehry proposal for the Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi.

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Hadid's vision of the Performing Arts Centre's exhibition rooms is reminiscent of a sawn-off bone.

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The Performing Arts Center would feature a spectacular view of the Persian Gulf and of Abu Dhabi's skyline.

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Abu Dhabi's Guggenheim would be an even more elaborate and experimental construction than the Guggenheim in New York City.

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Jean Nouvel's proposal for a museum involves buildings of various types clustered directly by the sea.

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Tadao Ando's proposal for the Maritime Museum is shaped like a sail.

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Tadao Ando envisions the Maritime Museum as a building both elegant and simple.

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