VERRIÈRE
FRENDE日本語
Country

Greenhouses to visit in the United Arab Emirates

The Verrière atlas lists 5 greenhouses in the United Arab Emirates, built between 2015 and 2026.

In the Emirates the logic is reversed: the greenhouse protects not from cold but from heat. Among them are air-conditioned domes devoted to butterflies and rainforest, opened in 2015 and 2016.

5Greenhouses
2015Oldest — Butterfly Pavilion, Noor Island
2026Newest — The Butterfly Gardens Abu Dhabi (Al Qana biodomes)
4Cities
See them on the globe →

All 5 greenhouses, oldest to newest

Butterfly Pavilion, Noor Island, Noor Island, Sharjah
2015

Butterfly Pavilion, Noor Island

🇦🇪 Noor Island, Sharjah
Four thousand gilded aluminum petals form the cocoon beneath which five hundred tropical butterflies flutter, facing Sharjah's waterfront.
United Arab EmiratesView entry →
Dubai Butterfly Garden, Dubai
2015

Dubai Butterfly Garden

🇦🇪 Dubai
Over 15,000 butterflies under climate-controlled domes in the middle of the desert.
United Arab EmiratesView entry →
The Green Planet, City Walk, Dubai
2016

The Green Planet

🇦🇪 City Walk, Dubai
An origami-shaped glass cube in the heart of City Walk encloses a rainforest built around the largest artificial tree of its kind.
United Arab EmiratesView entry →
2019

Glass House, Quranic Park

🇦🇪 Al Khawaneej, Dubai
A climate-controlled glasshouse on the highest point of Dubai's Quranic Park, devoted to plants named in the Quran and the Sunnah.
United Arab EmiratesView entry →
2026

The Butterfly Gardens Abu Dhabi (Al Qana biodomes)

🇦🇪 Al Qana (Al Maqta), Abu Dhabi
Two biodomes clad in UV-filtering panels shelter more than 10,000 butterflies in front of Al Qana's National Aquarium.
United Arab EmiratesView entry →

Architecture in the United Arab Emirates

2021

Terra, the Sustainability Pavilion (Expo 2020 Dubai)

🇦🇪 Expo City Dubai, Dubai
Sustainability pavilion of Expo 2020 Dubai: most of its spaces are buried under an earth roof, and a canopy of photovoltaic cells shades the courtyard.
United Arab EmiratesView entry →

Articles

Nearby countries in the atlas

Japan · South Korea · China · India · Taiwan · Turkey · Thailand · Indonesia