Hold on Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Followed by Long Delay of Jean Nouvel's Middle Eastern Louvre

With the news earlier this week that the Guggenheim‘s planned new, Frank Gehry-designed museum in Abu Dhabi was being put on hold over contract reviews, concern has spread from if not just if that museum will get finished, but if similar issues will spread across the area. The AP reports that there is now worry that a branch of the Louvre, which was designed by Jean Nouvel and was originally slated to open on Saadiyat Island in 2012, the same spot as the Guggenheim, won’t make it to completion.