Dubai's new Museum of the Future envisions a healthy planet
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Stunning building
Dubai will open the doors Friday to an architecturally stunning building housing the new Museum of the Future, a seven-story structure that envisions a dreamlike world powered by solar energy and the Gulf Arab state's frenetic quest to develop.
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Design marvel
The torus-shaped museum is a design marvel that forgoes support columns, relying instead on a network of diagonal beams. It is enveloped in windows carved by Arabic calligraphy, adding another eye-popping design element to Dubai's piercingly modern skyline that shimmers with the world's tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa.
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World's fair
The Museum of the Future projects Dubai's ambitions and its desire to be seen as a modern, inclusive city even as its political system remains rooted in hereditary rule and hard limits exist on the types of expression permitted. It is the latest in a stream of feats for Dubai, which is the first country in the Middle East to host the World's Fair.
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50 years from today
The museum envisions what the world could look like 50 years from today. It's a vision that crystalizes the United Arab Emirates' own 50-year transformation from a pearl-diving backwater to a global interconnected hub fueled by oil and gas wealth.
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Catching up
``It was an imperative requirement to develop so fast because we needed to catch up with the rest of the world,'' said Sarah Al-Amiri, UAE minister of state for advanced technology and chair of the UAE Space Agency. ``Prior to 1971, (we had) no basic road networks, no basic education, electricity network and so on.''