from New York Times
Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World
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Yet another grandiose plan to hot-house art and culture into existence in the shortest possible time-frame. If done sensitively, it might just become the Mecca of the art and museum world where we find real cross-fertilisation of ideas that work at the deepest level. But otherwise, it could become at best a well-designed showcase, at worst an inauthentic experience. It leaves us to wish them good luck.