About the redesign

Qasr Al Hosn site (left)

The was designed to reinstate Qasr Al Hosn fort in a coastal landscape while also celebrating the urbanisation in Abu Dhabi. The master plan is divided diagonally into two areas with distinctive identities.

On one side is the historic area around Qasr Al Hosn, which re-establishes the original setting of a solitary building on a sand plain, with an organic and natural coastal desert landscape.

On the other side is a modern heritage area around the Cultural Foundation, an urban city grid layout with a more man-made, geometrical expression of hard surfaces destined for a series of cultural activities.