Saadiyat

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Construction of the bridge to Saadiyat Island, October 2008
Scale model of Saadiyat Island, May 2007

Saʿadiyat Island ( Arabic جزيرة سعديات, DMG Ǧazīrat Saʿdīyāt  'Island of Happiness') is located about 500 meters east of the port of Abu Dhabi .

The approximately 26.32 km² island is not a completely artificially heaped island like the palm islands in Dubai , but a natural sand core in the mangrove zone, which has been reinforced and enlarged by additional embankments. The island serves to expand the already scarce building and beach areas in the city of Abu Dhabi. The Tourism Development & Investment Company will build around 29 hotels with over 7,000 rooms, 8,000 villas and 38,000 apartments as well as numerous tourism, leisure and supply facilities on Saadiyat by 2018 [out of date] in a relatively relaxed manner. The marina for pleasure boats alone will be equipped with 1,000 berths.

Cultural district

The main attractions on the island are said to be a cultural district with a worldwide claim. The following individual projects are named:

  • The Louvre Abu Dhabi , planned by Jean Nouvel , is a museum of classical fine arts. It opened in November 2017.
  • The Guggenheim Museum , planned by Frank Gehry , was supposed to open in 2017 (modern visual arts), but it stalled. The project made headlines in 2011 when over 130 artists threatened to boycott the museum because of the poor working conditions on the construction site.
  • The Performing Arts Center : several buildings with two concert halls, an opera and two theaters (guest performances, classical and entertainment productions).
  • The New York University : The Uniableger 2010 opened a temporary campus. The construction contract for the university building was awarded to the Mubadala Development Company in April 2010 . The construction was completed in 2014.
  • Sheikh-Zayed : National Museum (Arab tradition and modernity).

Infrastructure

The island has been connected to Abu Dhabi and Yas Island by a 10-lane highway and the 1.4 kilometer Sheikh Khalifa Bridge since 2009 . The construction budget for this prestigious project was set at 27 billion US dollars.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ PNAS Islands Database
  2. ↑ Helge Sobik: Louvre in Abu Dhabi: How Picasso got into the desert . In: Spiegel Online . October 17, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 22, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Lena Bopp: The shining egg in the dusty desert . Die Zeit, November 11, 2017.
  4. ^ Bernhard Schulz: Weltmuseum am Wüstenrand , Der Tagesspiegel, November 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ Nicolai Ouroussoff: Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Faces Protest , NYTimes.com, March 17, 2011, accessed August 26, 2011
  6. ↑ Heiko Klaas, Heiko Klaas: Abu Dhabi: Arabs are planning gigantic art museums. In: Spiegel Online . February 2, 2007, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Tom Hundley: Lacking students, US colleges drop out of Mideast , globalpost.com, September 14, 2010, accessed August 26, 2011
  8. ↑ Andrew Roscoe: Al-Futtaim Carillion wins New York University contract in Abu Dhabi , meed.com, April 28, 2010, accessed August 26, 2011
  9. ^ The Gulf Art War , The New Yorker, December 19, 2016.

Coordinates: 24 ° 32 '  N , 54 ° 26'  E