Emirate signs up for Bilbao treatment
Abu Dhabi, the richest of seven sheikdoms in the United Arab Emirates, has signed an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a modern art museum designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank O. Gehry.
The museum will be the first Guggenheim in the Middle East, joining properties in New York, Berlin, Las Vegas, the Italian city of Venice and Bilbao in Spain, according to an e-mailed statement from Abu Dhabi’s government.
Gehry, creator of the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, will design the museum, to be built over about 7 1/2 acres within a real-estate venture known as Saadiyat Island.
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