AL MANARA

AL MANARA CULTURAL CENTRE

Location

Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Client

TDIC

Architect

Aedas Architects/TDIC

Description

Cultural Centre, with the gallery spaces and the 400 seats theatre. Low-rise steel structure with 30m clear span and 12m grid, on shallow foundation and slab oncompacted grade. Total BUA was 20,000 sqm. on the plotarea of 100,000 sqm. Al Manara Cultural Centre was recently extended by addition of Pavillion building with steel canopies, Storage building and Porte-Cochere. Design was completed by original design team.

Year

2009-2010. Extension: 2017-2018

Scope of work

Civil & Structural Design and Site Supervision