Project description by SpaceContinuum Design Studio
Sitting at the intersection of several residential areas near the centre of the city, The Flying Saucer—with its distinctive design as well as a spatial and key location in the heart of urban life—has long been inscribed in the collective cultural memory and place identity of Sharjah residents. Constructed in the mid-1970s and opened in 1978, the building’s architecture draws from a combination of space-age and Brutalist influences that permeated the period. Notable elements of its design include a wide circular dome floating above a ring of eight columns, a star-shaped…
