Dubai’s latest tall building – a giant inhabitable picture frame – has opened amid a storm over the way its architect was allegedlyrntreated by the client.rnThe Dubai Frame is a 150m-tall golden rectangle in Zabeel Park which encloses empty space and contains a tourist attraction.rnInside are museums of the emirate’s history and future and, right across the top, a vertiginous walk on clear glass as part of arn93m-long viewing gallery.rnIt was originally designed by Fernando Donis, a Mexican architect who used to work at Rem Koolhaas’s OMA – where he designedrnBeijing’s CCTV building, which also famously has a void at its heart.rnDonis won the competition in 2009, run by ThyssenKrupp with the International Union of Architects (UIA), and took homern$100,000 of prize money.
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