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ABOVE: OVERALL
               VIEW OF THE
          ICONIC EMIRATES
            PALACE HOTEL,
           CITY SYMBOL, AT
           EVENING LIGHTS.
               TO THE SIDE,
                THE VILLAS
             OVERLOOKING
            THE SEA OF THE
             ANANTARA SIR
           BANI YAS ISLAND
             AL YAMM VILLA
                  RESORT.










                              Watching from afar, with its futuristic structure,   d’Orsay and the Center Pompidou. The complex
                              the Louvre Abu Dhabi seems to be suspended   is part of the City Museum, which will transform
                              between the sand and the sea on the island of   the island into a cultural Sadiyaat-class distri-
                              Saadiyat. Opening soon, the modern museum   ct with the Zayed National Museum designed
                              designed by Jean Nouvel is covered by a dome   by Norman Foster and dedicated to the Sheikh
                              with movable layers can regulate at all times   Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan; the Guggenheim
                              of the day the temperature inside, from which   Abu Dhabi, designed by Frank Gehry and the
                              filters a shower of changing light radiating 300   Performing Arts Center signed Zaha Hadid. In
                              works on display (loaned to Abu Dhabi for about   the meantime the project is completed, Abu
                              30 years) from the Louvre in Paris, the Musée   Dhabi surprises with its skyline, which looks al-




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