Design dreamland

Top architects Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel were engaged to build the largest, most spectacular museum space in history. An island with four museums, including offshoots of the Guggenheim  and the louvre, will be realised in Abu dhabi.

Thomas Krens, the Director of the Guggenheim Museum, has some difficult times behind him. He was hired to create a 'global Guggenheim', but only the large-scale plan for Bilbao was fully realised, and has since become an icon. The Guggenheim Berlin was only partially executed, and locations such as Mexico, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo never made it beyond...