The Dubai Frame is quickly taking shape in the heart of the city, providing breathtaking views of 'old' and 'new' Dubai.
A Dubai Municipality delegation on Thursday has given residents a sneak peek into one of the upcoming iconic structures in the city. [...]
The work has already started on the frame's glass bridge, and the cladding is expected to be completed by the end of this year, a top senior Dubai Municipality official had told Khaleej Times earlier this year.
— Khaleej Times
Construction work on Dubai's latest gilded landmark appears to be making progress as the Dubai Municipality documented today in a new social media video of a city government delegation visiting the site.
The design of the 150-meter-tall Dubai Frame structure isn't without controversy: the concept originally surfaced as the 2008-09 ThyssenKrupp competition-winning design by architect Fernando Donis who eventually filed a lawsuit against the Dubai Municipality for stealing the copyright to his design. In a 2015-interview, Donis told Archinect: “At the end they took it, built it and will profit from it, without having involved us nor paid us."
The opening date of Dubai Frame has been pushed back numerous times but is now expected to happen by the end of this year.
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I've watched the construction progress over the last 6 months, on repeated travels to Dubai. I know it's ok bad taste to say this, but anyone who got paid 100k to conceptually design this structure shouldn't keep bitching and moaning.
I'm guessing that if sod's work had been appropriated without payment we'd never hear the end of it.
Miles, he got a 100,000$ as he won the competition for this structure.
How soon until this catches fire? Seems to be fashionable these days.
Hope it will burn down to the ground, the night before opening. But then again, what did Donis expect doing business with such a regime, they don't care about human rights so why would they suddenly bother with something as futile as copyrights?
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