By Valérie Sasportas (text) and Stanislas Fautré for
Le Figaro Magazine
(photos)
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Emirates, the sand giants - Exposition Universelle
In the aerial and automated metro that goes to its new terminus, Expo 2020, you can discover Dubai without wringing your neck. There is no better way to go to the Universal Exhibition which opened its doors on October 1 (with a year late due to a pandemic): on the white concrete viaduct we escape the urban bustle, traffic jams , in the ardent and moist heat of the gulf which rises at the beginning of October to more than 38 ° C, with the approach walk to the entrance of the site. Forty-three minutes separate us from the Business Bay station in the center of Dubai, right next to the ME Hotel, posthumous work of the architect Zaha Hadid who designed the whole building, exterior, interior, up to its furniture in shapes. rounded, organic, “
flowing
” à la Dalí.
From the street we marvel at seeing in the center of the building composed of two towers a suspended glass ice cube.
Then we turn: that's all
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