This must be the proverbial sound of the *sad trombone* for all those architects that dreamed of soaring structures in the Middle East.
This must be the proverbial sound of the *sad trombone* for all those architects that dreamed of soaring structures in the Middle East... NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF reports on the threatened artist boycott of "the $800 million Guggenheim museum being built in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, unless conditions for the foreign laborers at the site are improved." NYT
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This kind of practice is well known and has been happening in some parts of the middle east for ages.
Well done to the artists, but what about the architects? It's hard in these economic down times for firms to take a moral stance at the expense of loosing fees, I suppose... but I would have problems sleeping at night if it were me.
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