Construction fever in the Gulf
The small emirates and states located on the Gulf, at the eastern edge of the
Saudi Arabian peninsula, are building new cities in the desert at an astonishing
rate, from Bahrain to Doha, and south to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Comprised of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm
al-Quwain, the UAE is an oil-and-gas-rich region that has experienced an
unparalleled architectural boom in recent years.
With a dizzying array of ultra-modern towers popping up throughout the area,
it's no surprise that the Gulf region has attracted many of the world's most
prominent architects, including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Jean
Nouvel, who are all designing groundbreaking projects for the ambitious Cultural
District project on Saadiyat Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi.
With these and many more remarkable, large-scale projects recently built or
in progress, the Gulf emirates are perhaps today's top architectural hotspot.
Architects featured: AEDAS, Tadao Ando, Asymptote, Atkins, Behnisch
Architects, Frank O. Gehry, Gensler, Zaha Hadid, HOK Sport, Kazuhiro
Kojima+Kazuko Akamatsu/C+A, KPF, Greg Lynn Form, Jean Nouvel, OMA/Rem Kohlhaas,
ONL, Carlos Ott, I.M. Pei, RNL, Hadi Simaan, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Studio
Pei Zhu
TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world
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About the author:
Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard University, and was
editor-in-chief of the leading French art journal Connaissance des Arts for over
two decades. He has published numerous articles and books on contemporary
architecture, including TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, Building a New
Millennium, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Santiago Calatrava,
Norman Foster, Richard Meier, and Álvaro Siza.
Architecture in the Emirates
Jodidio, Philip
Hardcover 23.1 x 28.9 cm, 192 pages, 2007
Multilingual Edition: German, French, English
ISBN: 978-3-8228-1396-6
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