Dubai Frame nears completion despite architect's claims of copyright breach
The Dubai Frame is due to open later this year ? even though an ongoing lawsuit filed by its architect, Fernando Donis, alleges the design is stolen.
The Rotterdam-based architect won an international competition for the project nine years ago, organised by the Dubai Municipality and German company ThyssenKrupp Elevator.
Beating over 900 entrants, Donis' proposal ? also named the Dubai Frame ? featured two parallel towers linked by an observation deck, a similar shape to a temporary landmark the architect had previously designed for London.
Measuring 150 metres high and 93 metres wide, the structure is now rising tall in Dubai's Za'abeel Park, with its completion slated for the end of this year.
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According to the New York Times, Donis has filed suit in US federal court against the Dubai Municipality and ThyssenKrupp Elevator, claiming he never received either a contract or compensation for his design.
"Such copyright infringement to an important international competition regulated by UNESCO-UIA undermines the intellectual work of not only the 926 participants of the competition but all practicing architects," Donis told Dezeen.
"We hope that by making the story public, awareness is raised and more respect is achieved to the discipline in the future," said the architect, who filed the lawsuit in 2016.
The Dubai government has dismissed Donis' complaints because h...
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