I think of it as a smooth, simple organic arm, growing and reaching out into the Gulf, almost swimming or gliding, as though ready to slide right off the islands’ edge. It is so integral with the landscape, and yet somehow, stands alone as a great architectural statement . The overall form, cellular of sorts, is reflected throughout the entire building, from the windows to the spacial configuration (considering that the concept for the building came from examining basic geometries of plant biology, this comes as no surprise): "a sculptural form that emerges from a linear intersection of pedestrian paths within the cultural district, gradually developing into a growing organism that sprouts a network of successive branches. As it winds through the site, the architecture increases in complexity, building up height and depth and achieving multiple summits in the bodies housing the performance spaces, which spring from the structure like fruits on a vine and face westward, toward the water."
OH-MY-GOSH. I feel like I am experiencing poetry-in-motion when I read
those words from Hadid herself.