{"id":5313,"date":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/noticia\/ciudad-de-vacaciones\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"ciudad-de-vacaciones","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/noticia\/ciudad-de-vacaciones\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFamily fever<\/em> Arabic version<\/p>\n

El Pa\u00eds<\/strong> published this interview<\/a> yesterday with Thomas Krens<\/strong>, director of the Guggenheim<\/strong> museums, in which he explains his plans for the franchise in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)<\/strong>. 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 Cultural District<\/g> of Saadiyat Island<\/g> (‘the island of happiness’ in Arabic), a kind of hypertrophied, ultra-luxurious and cultured
\n Marina d’Or<\/g>
\n<\/g> that will begin construction in 2012. In addition to the new Guggenheim designed by Frank Gehry, <\/strong>of course,<\/strong> Saadiyat Island will also house franchises of the Louvre<\/strong> museum (designed by the newly Pritzker Prize-winning<\/a>
\n Jean<\/a>
\n<\/strong> <\/a>
\n Nouvel<\/a>
\n<\/strong>) and universities such as Yale<\/strong> or the Sorbonne<\/strong>, as well as other cultural facilities designed by other star architects such as Zaha Hadid<\/strong> or Tadao Ando<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Despite the title, this article<\/a> by
\n Zvika Krieger<\/a>
\n<\/strong> published in Newsweek<\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n

One of the things that we found most amusing about the whole affair is the intro to the Saadiyat Island website<\/a>, uhm… perhaps it would be interesting to analyze that iconography from a postcolonial perspective…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-5313","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticia\/5313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafundicio.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}