Sheikh Zayed Bridge
Steel-arched bridge whose dune-inspired curves are choreographed nightly with programmed colour light.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi traces a 1998 phone call from architect Zaha Hadid to a young Dutch lighting designer, made years before a single arch existed, asking him to design light for a bridge built from nothing more than a wooden model. It follows how Hadid shaped the bridge's curves after desert dunes and ancient ruins she grew up watching, and the decade-long process of scripting thirteen separate light scenes for the arches. Stand here after dark to see the rehearsal still running.
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