Keeping on our theme of beautiful infrastructure, Dubai is drawing attention to a part of its newly built Dubai Metro system that elsewhere is normally neglected. The city has hired two internationally-renowned street artists to transform the dull, grey pillars that support the train tracks into pieces of art.
Visitors and residents have been noticing the changes on Sheikh Zayed Road along the Dubai Metro’s Red Line as the pillars are prepared into canvases. While some cities around the world try in vain to fight urban art, Dubai has hired Daniel Cortez from Peru and Elio “Evoca1” Mercado from Miami for this project to bring street art to the world’s most glamorous city.