The tallest printed portrait of President His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan has been put up on the side of the Hotel Inter-Continental to welcome him when he returns from treatment abroad.
The huge computer-generated portrait was printed by a European company which sent its technicians to put it up.
The 330-square-metre photograph is 10 storeys tall: 30 metres high and 11 metres wide.
A spokesman for the hotel said, "To mark the return of His Highness to the UAE, the hotel building will be illuminated with colourful lights. Lighting of this kind has been used for the recently held Olympic Games in Sydney and the Millennium show in Berlin."
The largest hand-painted portrait of Sheikh Zayed will be put up at the Breakwater on the Corniche as part of National Day celebrations which fall on December 2. This portrait will replace a 2,100 square foot work by a prominent artist working for the Municipality.
The artist, Liaqat Ali Khan, said it took him nearly a month to complete the painting. But he refused to divulge any details. "You have to wait to see it on display once it is complete," he said.
Khan also painted what is now the largest portrait of Sheikh Zayed for a private company last year. The 2,230 square foot portrait was installed more than eight kilometres from Mafraq at the entrance of a temporary site of the Abu Dhabi construction company which sponsored it.
The portrait shows Sheikh Zayed carrying a falcon and sitting on a horse in a field of flowers.