Dubai Opera House

The Dubai Opera House is the cultural centre of the proposed Lagoons district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates with preparatory work underway in anticipation of groundbreaking. This development will accommodate an opera house with a 2,500 seating capacity, an 800-seat playhouse, a 5,000-square-metre (54,000 sq ft) arts gallery, a performing arts school, and a '6-star' themed hotel on a purpose-built island in Dubai Creek. It is also said that it wi... more

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Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد‎), CBE (born 31 October 1950) is a notable British Iraqi deconstructivist architect. Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School...
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