Dubai Frame
Giant picture frame framing old and modern Dubai, with a glass-bottomed sky bridge at one hundred fifty meters.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Dubai Frame follows Mexican architect Fernando Donis, who beat nearly a thousand competing entries in a 2008 competition and pitched an unusual idea, a deliberate void shaped like a giant frame, over dinner with Dubai's crown prince. It traces how the frame was designed to line up old Dubai's low rooftops on one side against the glass towers of the new city on the other, and the contract dispute that followed his win. Turn from one side to the other before heading up to the bridge.
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