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After 10 years of bearing the abstraction of a Middle-Eastern annex of the Louvre, Louvre Abu Dhabi opens this anniversary at last. Louvre Abu Dhabi is the aftereffect of accord amid the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and France.
["388"]Designed by Jean Nouvel, the building resides on Saadiyat Island in the Arabian Gulf. Louvre Abu Dhabi contains 23 abiding exhibition spaces and galleries, in accession to a analysis center, an auditorium, and a kids’ museum.
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“It is rather abnormal to acquisition a congenital archipelago in the sea,” said Jean Nouvel. “It is alike added aberrant to see that it is adequate by a awning creating a rain of light.”
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Front and Back Apartment by h2o Architectes | Dezeen | H2o Interior Design Abu DhabiThe activity was advised to be a “museum burghal (medina),” bond the Arab culture, modernity, and best architectonics and engineering—all in one structure.
The museum’s characteristic double-dome has a bore of 180 meters. Its absolute geometry and intricate perforations accommodate the building with adumbration and sun at the aforementioned time. The arch architectonics was declared to accept “horizontal, altogether beaming geometry; a about perforated alloyed material, accouterment adumbration alternate by bursts of sun.”
Photography: Roland Halbe
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Front and Back Apartment by h2o Architectes | Dezeen | H2o Interior Design Abu DhabiThe cardinal of star-shaped perforations in the arch is 7,850, accustomed showers of sunrays to the autogenous of the museum. Jean Nouvel says that they are “reminiscent of the overlapping approach copse in the United Arab Emirate’s oases.”
Nouvel added: “Louvre Abu Dhabi embodies an aberrant affairs in the accurate faculty of the word. Its vocation is now to accurate what is accepted throughout the ages. Its architectonics makes it a abode of aggregation and alternation amid the immense sky, the sea-horizon and the area of the desert. Its arch and cupola banner the amplitude with the alertness of time and of the moment through an evocative ablaze of a adherence that is its own.”
Photography: Roland Halbe
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The building is the aboriginal all-embracing building to anytime accessible in the Middle East. It will backpack the name of the ‘Louvre Museum’ for alone 30 years.
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