Emirates Towers D3000 f/4; Exposure 1/200sec; ISO-200; Aperture Priority
Here’s an option: take your iconic Dubai building with tropical trees in front, or without. Your choice! All that needs doing is walk 5 metres to the left, then to the right, then to the left again, and viola! Transformation!
Architect Hazel Wong invoked the earth, sun and moon – the three heavenly Bodies of Islam – when designing the towers in their simple elegant forms, back in 1999. Landscaping and clear space around the towers today gives them the right distance and perspective they deserve to be viewed from.
One tower is reflected off the other and one sits higher than the other. Movement as a theme is manifest in the design so that when you walk around the buildings, the buildings move with you. Date trees stay firmly planted in the ground though!
Emirates Towers D3000 f/5; Exposure 1/160sec; ISO-200; Aperture Priority
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