Zaha Hadid’s design for the Performing Arts Centre reflects the fluidity of motion, and is inspired by forms encountered in the natural world. The building has been designed to flow from the centre of the Saadiyat Cultural District, drawing visitors inside and conveying them upwards towards the performance spaces at the summit facing the beauty of the Arabian Gulf.
Zaha Hadid Architects described the bodies housing the performance spaces as being ‘embedded like pearls and exposed at the same time, emerging out of the structure, like fruits of a plant, facing the sea’.