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Friday, October 15, 2010

UAE Artistic Awards

No, it's not a mausoleum for Madonna. It's the UAE pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. Given that Shanghai is perhaps the only city that can outdo Dubai for extreme architecture, it may almost seem subdued. It's one of an extraordinary three rewards the UAE has won in the US National Council of Structural Engineers Association competition: for the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building (see story earlier today), for a bridge in a Formula One racetrack, and for this. From today's The National.

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