Al Hosn Masterplan And Landscape Abu Dhabi Buildings, Architect, CEBRA UAE Architecture Photos
Al Hosn Masterplan And Landscape Abu Dhabi, UAE
3 January 2022
Design: CEBRA, Denmark
Location: Qasr al Hosn Fort, Abu Dhabi, UAE
A magical portal to a future inspired by the past

Photos by Mikkel Frost
Al Hosn Masterplan And Landscape in Abu Dhabi
The Al Hosn masterplan project in Abu Dhabi, designed and developed by Danish CEBRA, has received several international architecture awards over the last few years ? most recently the project has been awarded both WAN Award 2021 and WAF Award 2021 for its overall masterplan design and landscape architecture.

In 2016 the Danish architecture and design practice CEBRA was commissioned by the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi to reinstate the Qasr al Hosn Fort as Abu Dhabi?s cultural heart. The Qasr Al Hosn is the city?s oldest and most important building. Originally built in 1760 as a watchtower to protect the only freshwater well on Abu Dhabi Island and later extended into a palace, it literally constitutes the birthplace of the modern metropolis.
The aim of the transformation masterplan has been to reinstate the fort as the cultural heart of the city with a new 140.000 sqm cultural park-scape and to conserve both the site surrounding the fort and the city?s Cultural Foundation – a 1980?s listed cultural centre of Bauhaus origins ? which also sits on the site. Introducing a new type of locally rooted urban landscape the...