Masdar City hasn’t lived up to its grand vision. ... Around 60% of buildings in Masdar City are covered in opaque walls, unlike the glass skyscrapers favored in many other metropolises.

Masdar City sits in the desert about 10 miles outside of Abu Dhabi, ... This, along with the thick perimeter wall around the city, is an age-old technique in Arab towns.

The city may be what has attracted the world's attention to the project, but much of what is most exciting about Masdar is taking place outside of its light-switchless walls: Masdar is slowly ...

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design the urban centre of Masdar, a zero-carbon, zero-waste city to be built in the desert near Abu Dhabi. The centre will ...

Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is more than an eco-city—it’s a forward-thinking blueprint for future urban living. Its sustainability efforts continue to inspire cities worldwide to adopt greener ...

Masdar City has been a pet project of Sultan al-Jaber, the head of the UAE’s national oil company and the president of the ongoing COP28 climate conference in nearby Dubai, who has sought to ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates Back in 2007, when the government here announced its plan for “the world’s first zero-carbon city” on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, many Westerners dismissed it ...

Masdar is an entirely new city, built from scratch in the desert, 17 km outside Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (see also Tianjin). UAE is putting up the basic capital for the $19 billion ...

Masdar, that "zero carbon, zero waste, car-free city" we first wrote about back in 2007 has been moving forward in Abu Dhabi. 100 sudents and faculty should be living in the early stages of ...

Abu Dhabi, UAE – Masdar City has reinforced its position as the UAE’s pioneering sustainable urban community with the award of the prestigious LEED Communities Platinum Certification for its Phase 1 ...