Wahat Al Karama
Leaning aluminum-clad tablets forming a war memorial honoring fallen servicemen and women.
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This guide to Wahat Al Karama in Abu Dhabi opens with a young policeman who died defending a Gulf island days before the UAE's founding, and the question of what a nation leans on before it even exists. It walks through Idris Khan's design for the memorial, thirty-one tablets clad in cast aluminum that lean against one another down to a spine wall carved with the Armed Forces' pledge, and the poems by Sheikh Zayed stamped into some of the panels. Walk on toward the round pavilion to see how the names there are arranged.
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