{"id":712,"date":"2014-08-14T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2014-08-14T21:01:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:01:47","slug":"super-cool-control-tower-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Super-cool control tower &#8211; Abu Dhabi airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/abu-dhabi-control-tower.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-713\" src=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/abu-dhabi-control-tower.jpeg?w=627\" alt=\"Abu Dhabi control tower\" width=\"378\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/abu-dhabi-control-tower.jpeg 690w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/abu-dhabi-control-tower-300x272.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a>On my travels, pausing briefly &#8211; in fact 3 hours longer than anticipated, due to a delayed flight &#8211; in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>There is a huge amount of building and development work going on around the airport, as can be seen from some of the many cranes in the photo. One thing which looks really great is the control tower at the airport. Depending on which way you look at it, it&#8217;s either a sail, with the control room at the top; or a half-buried crescent moon, ditto.<\/p>\n<p>The structure is huge and is almost 400\u00a0feet tall. I didn&#8217;t get a chance to see the tower from different angles, but this picture\u00a0is how you see it from the passenger terminal. Here&#8217;s a link to more images of the tower: <a title=\"Images for Abu Dhabi airport control tower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.au\/search?q=abu+dhabi+airport+control+tower&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=M5XsU7PfJOXP0QWuxIHgAQ&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CBsQsAQ&amp;biw=1253&amp;bih=752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abu Dhabi Airport Control Tower.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice to see something a bit more adventurous\u00a0in airport design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my travels, pausing briefly &#8211; in fact 3 hours longer than anticipated, due to a delayed flight &#8211; in Abu Dhabi. There is a huge amount of building and development work going on around the airport, as can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=712\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}