DESERT OASIS
Sarah Delamore is the Kiwi architect responsible for building a little piece of Aotearoa in the Dubai desert.
As the architectural lead for the New Zealand pavilion at Expo 2020, a world fair showcasing 190 nations, she has helped create an extraordinary concept in a city where the preposterous is almost commonplace.
Dubai already has a huge indoor mall ski field, the world’s tallest tower and the Palm Jumeirah, a man-made, frond-shaped archipelago of beaches and super-luxe hotels. It now has a building based on the idea of the Whanganui River being the first river in the world to gain legal personhood.
