Abu Dhabi
Measured Grandeur
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Abu Dhabi holds around six per cent of the world's proven oil reserves and has spent the income differently from its neighbour — the Louvre Abu Dhabi under Jean Nouvel's perforated dome, a Guggenheim under construction, and a sovereign fund among the largest anywhere. The Sheikh Zayed mosque holds forty thousand worshippers and took eleven years.
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