Jul 16
Halcrow architects have completed this Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.
One of the largest mosques in the world, it is designed to house more than 40,000 worshippers.
The mosque is named after Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nayhan, the late ruler and founder of the United Arab Emirates.
Jonathan Speirs, director of Speirs and Major Associates, the project’s lighting architects, explains: ‘In the same way as the moon has an impact on the tides, we wanted the moon to have an impact on the building. Our idea was to have a building that, by full moon, is lit pristinely with white light, but with a textural quality evocative of clouds slowly drifting in front of a full white moon. As the moon wanes over its 28 day cycle, the lighting grows gradually bluer to signify darkness. On the fourteenth evening the mosque is lit in deepest blue.’
5 Comments
Dustin wrote:
Stunning, Nathaniel Kahn would be impressed.. maybe. I am.
Posted on Jul 16 2009 at 16:40
samah wrote:
very nice :)
ma sha’a allah
Posted on Jul 17 2009 at 13:38
Tito wrote:
Simply Beautiful - I have seen the Grand Mosque during the day and it is stunning BUT hope to be able to see it at night soon to see how it appears in reality.
Posted on Jul 22 2009 at 08:43
german arbelaez wrote:
Arquitecto German Arbelaez
espectacular es realmente abrumador en tamaño por la escala humana y por la decoracion.
me gustaria ver los planos de diseño tienen que ser bastante complejos y se obras de arte
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Posted on Jul 23 2009 at 05:16
Abdul wrote:
The mosque has been disigned perfect and besides this we Muslims must have education and technology and get united against our enemies and break the borders for the muslims
Posted on Sep 27 2009 at 08:59
