Photo Gallery Art in the Desert
Zaha Hadid's Performing Arts Centre is an amoeba-like structure covered with a netlike window structure.
Hadid is considered the high priest of deconstructive architecture. This image shows a simulated aerial view of her proposal for the Performing Arts Centre.
This is Frank O. Gehry proposal for the Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi.
Hadid's vision of the Performing Arts Centre's exhibition rooms is reminiscent of a sawn-off bone.
The Performing Arts Center would feature a spectacular view of the Persian Gulf and of Abu Dhabi's skyline.
Abu Dhabi's Guggenheim would be an even more elaborate and experimental construction than the Guggenheim in New York City.
Jean Nouvel's proposal for a museum involves buildings of various types clustered directly by the sea.
Tadao Ando's proposal for the Maritime Museum is shaped like a sail.
Tadao Ando envisions the Maritime Museum as a building both elegant and simple.