This construction site seemed to me to be the best new building in Abu Dhabi, a contemporary interpretation of the traditional building material of 'arish - reed matting used to shelter a building.
I appreciated the links that traditional buildings maintained with their landscape, so evident in photographs taken before the present development and now sadly lost. The photograph below, one of a series of the Gulf States in the 1950s by Ronald Codrai, shows Qasr al Hosn with Landrover tracks making routes across the site.
thomas
deckker
architect
