El País published this interview yesterday with Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim museums, in which he explains his plans for the franchise in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). We are entering a “pharaonic” dimension here that is quite beyond us, to be honest; even so, we couldn’t resist taking a peek and we saw that the “Guggenheim Abu Dhabi” will be built in the
Jean
Nouvel
) and universities such as Yale or the Sorbonne, as well as other cultural facilities designed by other star architects such as Zaha Hadid or Tadao Ando…
Despite the title, this article by
Zvika Krieger
published in Newsweek last year explains in a fairly objective way both the origin and development of the megaproject, as well as its repercussions and the controversies it has aroused, especially in the West.
One of the things that we found most amusing about the whole affair is the intro to the Saadiyat Island website, uhm… perhaps it would be interesting to analyze that iconography from a postcolonial perspective…
