#PROJECT: THE CULTURAL DISTRICT (Saadiyat Island)

[Silicon Francisco]

Where is the rest of Saadiyat Island at?

[ocean spirit]

Originally Posted by dubaiflo

cool stuff but somehow totally crazy..

...like every vision.
All the future is "somehow totally crazy"..
Retrospection introduct us to the future and visions like Art In the Desert,Louvre Abu Dhabi becomes master piece of the present time (soon).
Magnificent human mind...

[Krazy]

posted earlier by dubai_26

[Silicon Francisco]

I don't really like the junkheap at the end

[Gregorious]

The Louvre is gonna drown if the sea level rises by at least 1 metre (looks like it).

And is that the final design of the Guggenheim?

[Qatar4Ever]

Lovely!! Im already in love with AD! I wish the pot-head over here would wake up and learn a thing or two about proper planning and development!! Something with taste and class !

[abudhabiraper]

powerful step!!

for sure , abu dhabi will follow dubai but!! as a baby!!

projects in abu dhabi increased & will increase in the future years

but, there is a question that it present it self:

is there a project in abu dhabi that was completed in the complition date?

i think the answer will be "no" because abu dhabi is growing slowley and working at the night when the person's eyes closed!!


saadiyat is a big project but you will see that the complition date will delayed to another future date!


thanks

[Krazy]

Louvre Abu Dhabi to start taking shape soon



The Louvre Abu Dhabi, a model of which was unveiled recently, will shortly enter its design and engineering phase on Saadiyat Island.


Abu Dhabi: The Louvre Abu Dhabi will shortly enter its design and engineering phase, according to Lee Tabler, CEO of the Tourism Development and Investment Company.

A 10-member delegation of French ministry officials and representatives from museums and five top cultural institutions visited Abu Dhabi over the management strategy planned for the Louvre Abu Dhabi due to open in the Cultural District on Saadiyat Island.

Earlier this year the governments of Abu Dhabi and France agreed to an unprecedented 30-year cultural accord to create the Louvre Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island, which lies 500 metres off Abu Dhabi.

"The project will soon enter its design and engineering phase with the imminent appointment of an engineering consultant to work in collaboration with Jean Nouvel," said Tabler.

He added that the talks focused on the management strategy for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, "which will be among the first of Saadiyat's international cultural institutions to take shape".

The team, which was accompanied by French Ambassador Patrice Paoli, included officials from the French Cultural Ministry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Musée du Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, the CNAC Pompidou, Musée du Quai Branly and the National Library of France.

[flares]

Originally Posted by KapitangKiko

Cityscape AUH ends today. The Saadiyat Cultural District exhibit at the Emirates Palace Hotel is still running, though. You may want to check that one out.

The Saadiyat exhibition is still running at the Emirates Palace and is definitely worth a visit. Also there is a mini exhibition for the Desert Islands Project.

[Krazy]

Louvre Abu Dhabi to have French flavour


A new agency has been formed to steer the development of the much-anticipated Louvre Abu Dhabi.

The museum is to be built in the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island – just 500 metres offshore from the capital. The French Museums agency, will operate in collaboration with the Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC) which is behind the transformation of Saadiyat Island.

The committee will be chaired by leading French financier and member of the country’s Academie des Beaux Arts, Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, publisher of the intellectual periodical Revue des Deux Mondes with Bruno Maquart, the former executive director of French museum Centre Pompidou acting as executive director.

“The French Museums agency comprises some of the finest minds in the French cultural arena,” said Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (Adta) and TDIC chairman.

“Working closely with the TDIC, the French Museums agency members will be responsible for most aspects of planning of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, including the scientific and cultural programmes, advising on the architecture, design and acquisitions, handling loans to the museum, temporary exhibitions, management support, visitor development and services.

“Together we have formulated a world-class team which will deliver a truly outstanding facility of international appeal,” he said.

The agency includes Henri Loyrette, chairman and director of the Louvre and former director of the Musée d’Orsay who will chair its Scientific Committee, Laurence des Cars, the former curator of Musée d’Orsay who will act as Scientific Director and Sylvie Aubenas, Curator of the BNF’s engraving and photography department who will also serve on the Scientific Committee.

Under its jurisdiction, the agency will supply expertise in the fields of restoration, curatorship, exhibition design as well as provide the required training for the Museum Operating Body that will be in charge of running the Louvre Abu Dhabi on a dayto-day basis.

“Our long-term ambition is to see UAE nationals fully trained in these specialist fields and we intend to activate a series of art and cultural education initiatives to ignite within young Emiratis a determination to take up vocations in these sectors,” said Sheikh Sultan.

“A dedicated training action plan will be rolled out within 18 months with training sessions to be held in France and Abu Dhabi.” Planning for Louvre Abu Dhabi, for which the French award-winning architect Jean Nouvel delivered the concept design, follows a 30-year cultural accord sealed earlier this year between the governments of Abu Dhabi and the Republic of France.

Louvre Abu Dhabi is one of several iconic museums and arts centres being planned for Saadiyat Island’s Cultural District. Others include: the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi modern and contemporary art museum, a Maritime Museum, the Sheikh Zayed National Museum, a performing arts centre and a Biennale Park with a host of museum clusters.

Together they will make up the world’s largest cultural destination.

[NEWUSER]

I don't know! I could have thought of better things to do with 1 Billion Euro then to spend it over rights to "Louvre Museum" name, but it's a done deal.

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15 hours ago

PARIS (AFP) — The French parliament on Tuesday approved plans to build a branch of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, despite opposition from leftists who say the venture cheapens France's top art institution.

The National Assembly endorsed the deal reached this year with Abu Dhabi to help develop the museum on an island off the coast of the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Under the 30-year agreement, Abu Dhabi will pay 400 million euros (525 million dollars) for the Louvre brand name and for loans of hundreds of artworks for periods of between six months to two years.

It is part of a broader one-billion-euro cooperation deal with the French museums agency that will see artworks travel from Paris to the Gulf when the branch opens in 2012.

The French Senate endorsed the deal last month despite criticism from socialists and communists who decried it as a cheap commercial undertaking that had little to do with the promotion of the arts.

"This partnership illustrates in an exemplary manner the openness to the world that we want for our cultural policy," junior minister for cooperation and francophony Jean-Marie Bockel told deputies during the debate.

"We are not leasing or selling our national heritage," he said. "This is a challenge that we are undertaking to promote cultural diversity and a rapprochement of civilisations."

The main opposition socialists abstained from the vote but the governing UMP party and its allies supported the project that was reached by the former government of president Jacques Chirac in March.

Critics complain that France's prized collections should not be put on loan, saying it would deprive the Louvre's 7.3 million annual visitors in Paris.
"This agreement marks a worrisome turning point in our museums policy," said former culture minister and socialist Catherine Tasca.

One of the leading opponents of the project and a former director of the Picasso Museum in Paris, Jean Clair, warned that approval of the Abu Dhabi Louvre would "sound the death knell of the museum as we know it."

"Are we not selling our soul?" Clair wrote in an opinion piece in Le Monde in December that set off a petition signed by 5,500 prominent figures of the French cultural world.

Some 300 works of art will initially be on display at the Abu Dhabi Louvre but that collection is expected to be trimmed down to 250 and 200 over 10 years.

Senior officials have said there are no plans to allow such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa to leave Paris and that Paris curators will be able to remove any work that may be at risk in Abu Dhabi.

Construction of the 24,000-square-metre (260,000-square foot) gallery designed by French architect Jean Nouvel is due to start later this year and cost 83 million euros (109 million dollars).

The government of Abu Dhabi will foot the bill.

source: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...hCA95Sf5whgR_g
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5...4F31383008.htm

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Shame.

[smussuw]

money talk

[Dubai Spacescraper]

Found this in a magazine, in case anyone is interested.

[Brummyboy92]

Out of everything going on in Dubai and Abu Dhabi this is my favourite!

[bizzybonita]

i fall in luv with this one .....bravo waterfront views

[BinDubai]

wow

[bizzybonita]

[bizzybonita]

is like crocodile shaped lol

[Khanrak]

Abu Dhabi is amazing. The future plans for this city make Dubai look even sillier than it currently is (check out the Abu Dhabi plan 2030) - bravo to Abu Dhabi for choosing elegance and sophistication over gaudiness and the world's biggest everything.