“The new Guggenheim is designed by Frank Gehry, the new Louvre by Jean Nouvel, who modernised the Louvre in Paris, and the performing arts museum by Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid. The Hadid building is like a reptile head; the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi resembles fallen-over cereal boxes; the Louvre Abu Dhabi is a shallow dome with geometric openings that cause patterns of light to be thrown around the interiors like a geometric reference to Impressionism. But how real can this Paradise be?”