Wandering Masdar City, A Sustainable Community

Abu Dhabi leans into the future with the pre-planned mini town of Masdar City. It's billed as a green, sustainable, renewable, carless, future, woke, cool, transformative, environmental, and any other forward, kind, neutral words one can use to describe a city that treads lightly or not at all on Mother Earth. Something like that.

Sustainable or not (right now, not is winning), the architecture is great. Signature, unique buildings dominate. You want to live and work there, just to enjoy the building eye candy.

Views of a wavy apartment building. Little blue, electric troll-y trams are supposed to move the peeps around.

The angles and textures are lovely and varied.

One of the signature elements of the city, the tall wind tower. Through natural convection, the tower sucks up hot air from the plaza, cooling the area. Looking up the core of the wind tower. Small dogs have been known to get sucked up and flown six stories in the air. Seriously. Seriously kidding. Watch your hat.

The place is still expanding, the dream ongoing.