Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
— — a red roof shaped like the car it was built for.
Not only on a wall.
“The largest space-frame roof ever built, painted Ferrari red, sitting on the flat of Yas Island. Underneath it, Formula Rossa accelerates to 240 kilometres an hour in under five seconds — the fastest roller coaster on Earth. The roof is shaped like the curve of a 250 GTO seen from above. From the F1 circuit next door, the whole island reads like one continuous piece of red. — from the studio
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi sits on Yas Island, about 30 kilometres east of central Abu Dhabi and a few minutes' walk from the Yas Marina Formula 1 Circuit. Opened on 4 November 2010, it was the first Ferrari-branded theme park in the world. The building is the largest space-frame structure on Earth, covering about 200,000 square metres beneath a single red roof. It was designed by Benoy with engineering by Halvorson and Partners, and the roof silhouette is taken from the curve of the Ferrari 250 GTO.
The roof is the structure. A single Ferrari-red GRP shell, around 200,000 square metres, carried on a triangular space frame whose longest unsupported span is over 100 metres. The roof's apex rises to about 50 metres above the desert floor; the Ferrari logo at the centre, around 65 metres across, is large enough to be photographed from orbit. The roof is engineered for the Gulf climate — sun load, sand, and the occasional 50-degree summer day — and is finished in a pigment matched to Rosso Corsa.
The park is reached by car or taxi from Abu Dhabi (about 35 minutes) or Dubai (about 75 minutes), and is linked to the rest of Yas Island by a covered walkway from the Yas Mall and Yas Plaza hotels. A multi-park pass through Yas Island Theme Parks bundles entry with Yas Waterworld and Warner Bros World. Opening hours run from 11:00 to roughly 20:00 most days, with adult day passes around AED 345. The headline ride, Formula Rossa, reaches 240 km/h in 4.9 seconds and is the fastest roller coaster in the world.