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Flying Saucer Rehabilitation
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  • Award Cycle:
    Status:
    Shortlisted
    Country of origin:
    United Arab Emirates
    Location:
    Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
    Client:
    Sharjah Art Foundation
    Architect:
    SpaceContinuum Design Studio / Mona El Mousfy
    Design:
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    Completed:
    2020

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The Flying Saucer is a 1978 Brutalist-style building that originally housed a café, restaurant, newsstand and gift shop; use of the building changed several times from 1988 onwards.  It comprises a star-shaped canopy around a seven-metre dome over a circular arrangement of eight columns and V-shaped pillars.  The building was fully restored as a community art space, and a later extension to the building was demolished. The surrounding parking area was excavated for construction of a new underground community space to contain a public art library, a film-screening room, and workspace and social areas; the area above it and surrounding the building has been hardscaped as a public urban plaza.