Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Between an Arab medina and a Greek agora’ … an outdoor section of the Gulf outpost. The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first completed building in the oil-rich emirate’s long-delayed $18bn plan for a lavish cultural island, dreamed up more than a decade ago in the heady days before the global financial crisis. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dappled interior … sunlight bursts through the randomly perforated double dome. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Did he have too much money to spend? Facebook Twitter Pinterest Verging on tacky … the ‘stone carpet’ in one of the galleries.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2017 18:06 UTC