Abu Dhabi’s new Performing Arts Center is one of the latest architectural commissions to be revealed by Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid. The space, scheduled to open in 2013, houses a music hall, opera house, drama theatre, concert hall and a flexible theater with a combined seating capacity for 6,300 people. The Arts Center is part of a Guggenheim development on the Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, which also includes a 450,000 square foot museum designed by architect Frank Gehry.