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Cover Picture: Steel Construction 2/2012
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
steel construction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1867-0539
pISSN - 1867-0520
DOI - 10.1002/stco.201290012
Subject(s) - abu dhabi , sculpture , capital city , civil engineering , architectural engineering , plan (archaeology) , engineering , geography , forensic engineering , archaeology , metropolitan area , economic geography
The Emirate of Abu Dhabi is planning for the post‐oil era, so education plays a central role in its Master Plan 2030. The new building complex of the Zayed University, intended for 6,000 students, is located in the future Capital District directly on the important connecting road between the international airport Abu Dhabi and the peninsular old town. Hamburg architects BRT Bothe Richter Teherani symbolism‐rich design moulds the 100.000 m2 GFA ensemble of buildings in the central area into a huge sculpture. The linking element is a jointless free‐form roof of 8,000 t of steel with aluminum cladding whose shape and lightness echoes the traditional Arabic chador, pp. 108‐116. (Photo: Al Habtoor