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ARCHITECTGEHRY PARTNERS, LLP.
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CONTRACTORSIX CONSTRUCT - TROJAN GENERAL CONTRACTING LLC.
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CATEGORYCULTURAL
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LOCATIONABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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YEAR2025
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum, designed by internationally late renowned architect Frank Gehry, is an experiment in inventive 21st-century museum design. The building defines a new approach to the museum visitor experience and presents an innovative vision for viewing contemporary art in the context of a desert landscape.
Situated on a peninsula at the north-western tip of Saadiyat Island adjacent to Abu Dhabi City in the United Arab Emirates, the museum is surrounded on three sides by the gleaming waters of the Gulf. The building site surrounded by a group of breakwaters, also serves as a manmade breakwater configured to protect the island’s pristine north beach zone.
A total of 5518 metal mesh cladding panels that are assembled individually into a steel frame called “picture frame” overlay on the inner and outer parts of the main steel structure with the shape of cones varying in size and inclination. There are 9 cones surrounding the museum perimeter that provides a unique touch where aesthetics meet engineering.
