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HE Al Qassimi referred to as ‘indexing’. It will then be fed into a platform tailored to help identify buildings of value. “We need to understand the buildings in the UAE, so we’re developing a programme with Zayed University that focuses on this area,” he said. Reflecting on the way that UAE buildings from the 1960s and 1970s are sometimes seen as ugly or old-fashioned, Kate Goodwin stated that very similar public perceptions had existed in the UK, particularly around Brutalist architecture, but that with time, opinions had changed. 117