Abu Dhabi Photo Gallery With History

About Abu Dhabi:

Abu Dhabi is the capital and the second largest city in the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western coast. The city proper had an estimated population of 896,751 in 2009.

Abu Dhabi houses important offices of the federal government, and is the seat for the United Arab Emirates Government and the home for the Abu Dhabi Emiri Family and the President of the UAE from this family. Abu Dhabi has grown to be a cosmopolitan metropolis. Its rapid development and urbanisation, coupled with the relatively high average income of its population, has transformed Abu Dhabi to a larger and advanced metropolis. Today the city is the country's center of political, industrial activities, and a major cultural, and commercial centre due to its position as the capital. Abu Dhabi alone generated 56.7% of the GDP of the United Arab Emirates in 2008.

  

Abu Dhabi is home to important financial institutions such as the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates and the corporate headquarters of many companies and numerous multinational corporations. One of the world's largest producers of oil, Abu Dhabi has actively attempted to diversify its economy in recent years through investments in financial services and tourism. Abu Dhabi is the second most expensive city for expatriate employees in the region, and 50th most expensive city in the world. Fortune & CNN stated that Abu Dhabi is the richest city in the world.

History :

The city of Abu Dhabi is geographically located on the north-eastern part of the Persian Gulf in the Arabian Peninsula. It is on an island located less than 250 metres from the mainland and is joined to the mainland by the Maqta and Mussafah Bridges. A third bridge, designed by Zaha Hadid, is currently under construction. Abu Dhabi island is also connected to Saadiyat Island by a 5-lane motorway bridge. Al-Mafraq bridge connects the city to Reem Island and was completed in early 2011. Thhis is a multilayer interchange bridge and it has a total of 27 lanes which allow roughly 25 thousand automobiles to move per hour. There are three major bridges of the project, the largest has 8 lanes, four leaving Abu Dhabi city and four coming in.

Most of Abu Dhabi is located on the island itself, but it has many suburbs on the mainland for example: Khalifa City A,B and C, Al Raha Beach, Al Bahia City A,B and C, Al Shahama, Al Rahba, Between Two Bridges, Baniyas and Mussafah Residential.

Abu Dhabi has a hot arid climate. Sunny/blue skies can be expected throughout the year. The months of June through September are generally hot and humid with maximum temperatures averaging above 35 °C (95 °F). During this time, sandstorms also occur intermittently, in some cases reducing visibility down to a few meters.

The weather is cooler from November to March. This period also sees dense fog on some days. The oasis city of Al-Ain, about 150 km (93 mi) away, bordering Oman, regularly records the highest summer temperatures in the country; however, the dry desert air and cooler evenings make it a traditional retreat from the intense summer heat and year round humidity of the capital city

Architecture : 

The density of Abu Dhabi varies, with high employment density in the central area, high residential densities in central downtown and lower densities in the suburbs. In the dense areas, most of the concentration is achieved with medium- and high-rise buildings. Abu Dhabi's skyscrapers such as the notable Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Tower, the National Bank of Abu Dhabi headquarters, the Hilton Hotel Tower and the Etisalat headquarters are usually found in the financial districts of Abu Dhabi. Other notable modern buildings include the Emirates Palace with its design inspired by Arab heritage, and the www.visitabudhabi.com

The development of tall buildings has been encouraged in the Abu Dhabi Plan 2030, which will lead to the construction of many new skyscrapers over the next decade, particularly in the expansion of Abu Dhabi's central business district such as the new developments on Al Sowwah Island and Al Reem Island. Abu Dhabi already has a number of supertall skyscrapers under construction throughout the city. Some of the tallest buildings on the skyline include the 382 m (1,253.28 ft) Central Market Residential Tower, the 324 m (1,062.99 ft) The Landmark (Abu Dhabi) and the 74-storey, 310 m (1,017.06 ft) Sky Tower. Also many other skyscrapers over 150 m (492.13 ft) (500 ft) are either proposed or approved and could transform the city's skyline. As of July 2008, there were 62 high-rise buildings 23 to 150 m (75.46 to 492.13 ft) under construction, approved for construction, or proposed for construction.

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World most famous photos

Afghan Girl [1984]

And of course, photo taken by the Afghan girl National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Sharbat Gula was one of the students in an informal school in the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity and captured her image. It was about 12 years at the time. She made the cover of National Geographic next year, and his identity was discovered in 1992.

Stricken child crawling towards a food camp [1994]

The photo is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the famine in Sudan. The photo shows the children affected by crawling towards a United Nations camp for food, located one kilometer. Vulture waiting for the child to die so we can eat. This picture shocked the world. Nobody knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who. left the place as soon as the photograph was taken. Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.

Omayra Sánchez [1985]

Omayra Sánchez was one of 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano which erupted 14 November 1985. 13 years old, was trapped in water and cement to 3 days. The photo was taken shortly before his death, has caused controversy because the work of the photographer and the Colombian government's inaction in the midst of tragedy, when it was published worldwide after the death of the girl.

The plight of Kosovo refugees [1999]
Washington Post's Pulitzer winning photo entry part of the Rise (2000) show a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2 How, through a barbed wire fence in the hands of grandparents Kukes, in Albania passed the camp run by United Arab Emirates is. Shala family members here in Kosovo after the conflict had again fled.

Burning Monk – The Self-Immolation [1963]

11 June 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, killing himself at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to the Catholic rule of the day that the South Vietnamese government control in time bring attention to the repressive policies burned. Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag to Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism to Buddhism and Buddhist monks and nuns to stop hindering the practice and spread their religion Give the right.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire [1911]
Triangle Shirtwaist Company in body painting. Company rules were to keep doors closed to the factory workers (mostly immigrant women may skip or not steal it). When a fire ignited, disaster struck. 146 people died that day.

Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief [1968]
Photojournalist Eddie Adams once again the photos are the most powerful weapon in the world, "wrote. A fitting quote for Adams, because his one head at point blank range officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner with a Pulitzer in 1968 not only her picture Awards earned in 1969, but also about the Vietnam War souring Americans' attitude has gone a long way toward.

Lunch Atop a Skyscaper [1932]
Photograph depicts 11 men are having lunch, their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the streets of New York with sitting on a girder. Photographed at Ebbets 29 September 1932, and its Sunday photo supplement on October 2 appeared in the New York Herald Tribute.

Tourist Guy [2001]

Tourist Guy, is an Internet phenomenon consisting of a photograph of an image tourist Photoshopped after September 11 attacks of 2001. The tourist was identified as Peter guzla. Shortly after 9 / 11 an image showing a tourist while the plane was about to hit the building beneath him circulated on the Internet. It was alleged that the photo is from a camera found in the debris at Ground Zero. The picture won a best 9 / 11 Photoshopped picture contest.

Albert Einstein [1951]
Albert Einstein probably one of the most popular figures of all time. He is considered a genius because he created the theory of relativity, and so, challenged Newton's laws, until the beginning of 20th century physics was known by all. However, as a person, he was considered a beatnik, and this photo, March 14, 1951 have proved that happens.

The last Jew in Vinnitsa [1941]
Figure personal album Einsatzgruppen soldier, drawn back as The Last Jew is Vinnitsa, was a member of Einsatzgruppe D is only to shoot a jew on his knees to full mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were killed at that time.

Burial Of an Unknown Child
This picture shows the world’s worst industrial disaster, caused by the US multinational chemical company, Union Carbide.

Palestine Father Saving Son
Images from the video footage of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah being shot dead in the Gaza Strip. The scene was filmed by a France 2 cameraman.

Starving Boy
Wells was outraged that the same publication that sat on his picture for five months without publishing it, while people were dying, entered a competition. He was embarrassed to win as he has never participated in the contest itself, and was against winning prizes with pictures of people dying of hunger.

Lynching Of Young Blacks

This is a famous photo, taken in 1930 showing a black youth accused of raping a white woman and killing her boyfriend, hanged by a mob of 10,000 white men. The crowd was taken by force from the house of the county jail. Another black man was left behind and ends up being saved from lynching. Even if lynching photos were designed to strengthen white supremacy, the crowd and grotesquely tortured body finally rebelling pleased many.

Biafra
When the Igbo of eastern Nigeria declared themselves independent in 1967, Nigeria blockaded their fledgling country-Biafra. In three years of war, more than a million people died, mainly of hunger. In famine, children who lack protein often disease kwashiorkor, which causes the muscles to consume and their bellies to protrude.

The Falling Man- 9/11
Remember this photo? United States, people have to ban the record of 11 pain in September 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for a man described, are more intimate connection to the horror every day.

Hindenburg
The famous picture of the airship Hindenburg as it exploded and crashed spectacularly while docking at Lakehurst, NJ  May 6, 1937 and 35 people died.

Titanic
On April 10, 1912, the Titanic, the largest ship afloat, left Southampton, England on its maiden voyage to New York. The White Star Line had spared no expense in luxury. A legend even before she left, her passengers were a mix of rich pilgrims around the elegance of first class accommodations and immigrants packed in third class.