DESTINATIONS MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA |DUBAI
5
OF THE BEST
THINGS TO DO AT EXPO 2020
E Travel 300 years into the future for the Future of Food: Epochal Banquet, featuring glow-in-the-dark dishes and flavour-changing desserts.
E Enter a rotating cabin to access the Garden in the Sky, a 55m-high observation tower and ‘flying park’.
E Take shade under one of the metallic solar ‘trees’ that make the Grimshaw-designed Sustainability Pavilion Terra so striking.
E Escape the giant claw that is the ‘gnasher’ in the Sustainability Pavilion, themed around nature and humanity’s recent destruction of it.
E Experience traditional New Zealand manaakitanga (warm, generous hospitality) and haute cuisine in the airy, elegant Tiaki restaurant.
FUTURE GAZING
Back in town, the 48 flight cabins of the new big wheel Ain Dubai (and we mean big – at 250m, the largest in the world) is already proving a hit for its unforgettable views of both desert and city. And the gleaming, gorgeous calligraphy-covered torus-shaped Museum of the Future has already earned the affectionate nickname of ‘doughnut’, due to open early next year. For now, and until April 2022, the real future is
explored in engaging detail at the aforementioned Expo 2020. This 1,000-acre site – twice the size of Monaco – is accessed via three soaring entry portals designed by London-based designer Asif Khan. Pavilions from 191 countries unite under the theme ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future’. From the falcon-wing-inspired structure of Santiago Calatrava’s graceful UAE Pavilion to the 80,000 plants that make up the hanging gardens of the Singapore Pavilion, via the
30 18 NOVEMBER 2021 TRIED & TESTED
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Jameel Arts Centre; Dubai Turtle Rehabilitation Project; Jumeirah’s T3 Lounge at Dubai airport
jumeirah airport lounge, Dubai
Jumeirah’s recently opened meet-and-greet T3 Lounge is a delight. After being met at arrivals, guests are escorted to a tranquil space where refreshing towels and a perfect flat white, iced tea or cold soft drink await, along with trays of dainty nibbles. From here, they’re escorted to a waiting chauffeur-driven car and their hotel. From £30.
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world’s largest passenger lift to the top of the Foster + Partners-designed Mobility Pavilion, where visitors can learn the history of human mobility through exhibitions featuring 9m-tall figures and ancient-looking reliefs, the Expo has already been hailed by The New York Times as “world class”. Even detractors would have to admit this brashest of cities has always been original and inventive, but in bringing together striking structures by some of the world’s best architects, artists and designers, and filling them with conceptually strong and emotionally engaging content, Dubai has really pulled out all the stops and given us a glimpse of what the future might look like.
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