I can’t help but the that a lot of her Abu Dhabi work looks boring, in the sense that it’s very standard one-size fits all urbanity that the powers that be in the gulf states want, but with Schwartz’s trademark pop art aesthetics thrown on top. I get the impression that Abu Dhabi already had a standard idea of what they wanted but wanted the fashionability of the name on top. Generally like dictators do, nothing exciting unless it’s BIG BIG the BIGGEST, and a fashionable name on top.
That said, I do like that project acknowledges sea level change. I hear that she had to fight tooth and nail to get that into the project.
