Two volumes wrapped under the same skin of black concrete organize the project. On top of the first one of the them, a large horizontal plinth housing workshops and services, emerges a sort of cubic volume that protects the museum collections...
Oliver Wainwright Hovering above the sandy shores of Saadiyat Island like an upturned colander washed up on the beach, the metal-domed roof of the Louvre Abu Dhabi doesn't give much away from the outside. A cluster of white blocks spreads out from be
As a result of an agreement between the United Arab Emirates and France in 2007, the Louvre Abu Dhabi seeks to embody a spirit of openness and dialogue between cultures; thus, in its 8,600 square meters of galleries it will display artworks with a hi
Inspired in Rimbaud’s Le Bateau Îvre, the center is like a large ship sitting next to SANAA’s extension; the program is organized, like an assembly line, in two strata – a horizontal plinth from which a cubic volume emerges – wrapped in a black concr
El edificio, que será la sucursal del Louvre en Asia, se concibe como una pequeña ciudad con volúmenes alineados junto a un paseo marítimo. Éstos se cubren con una enorme cúpula de patrones entrelazados que introducen una luz típica de la arquitectur
