Fenwick Iribarren Architects   Qatar   With its facade showing Islamic patterns and a form that makes one think of a garment commonly worn by young Qataris, the new sport arena oozes with vernacular culture. The rhombic pieces of fiberglass that form the facade and roof create translucent

Fenwick Iribarren Architects   Qatar   Since their invention and standardization in the mid-20th century, metallic containers have optimized shipping transportation, ushering in a new era of global logistics and commercial exchange. Later on, new approaches to architectural seriation and

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Qatar   A tract of land measuring 1.3 million square meters, between Qatar University and the new city of Lusail, is the site of Doha’s Al Dayaan project, an opportunity to rethink hospital architecture in a context of exponentially advancing medical innovat

Koichi Takada   Qatar   The interior design of the National Museum of Qatar in Doha sought first of all to resonate with the image of a desert rose that the French architect Jean Nouvel had chosen to give the building, and secondly to ensure an intelligible reading of the i

Jean Nouvel   Qatar   The museum, the design of which is inspired by the forms of the desert rose, is part of an ambitious plan for cultural elevation that seeks to bind global modernity to local identity.

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Qatar   Eduardo Prieto The construction boom of countries like Qatar is but the offshoot of another boom, one begun almost a century ago: the oil boom. A trivial statement if thought of abstractly, but intuited firsthand from a plane flying over the Persian

Lacaton & Vassal Inside Outside   Qatar   The design can be summed up in a grand gesture, a roof of 150,000 square meters that unifies the set of enclosed spaces, terraces, and gardens, covering the site at 40 meters high with a mesh that guarantees shaded spaces without hindering natural ve

Jean Nouvel   Qatar   Inspired by the whimsical crystal forms of desert roses, the museum uses its formal expressiveness to establish a link between the Bedouin culture and global modernity. An organic system of intersected disks stretches around the ancient Amiri Palace,

Fenwick Iribarren Architects   Qatar   The whole plan of the complex resembles a sitting camel. At night the textile roof shines in the desert, and a large tower rises like a totem to serve as an icon and point of reference from the city of Doha. The jockeys will direct the animals throug

Arata Isozaki Ricardo Legorreta OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Pelli Clarke Pelli   Qatar   En 1995 se creó la Qatar Foundation con el objetivo de impulsar la educación y el desarrollo científico del país. Esta institución encomendó a Arata Isozaki el diseño de un campus de más de 1.400 hectáreas a las afueras de Doha que alojara sucursales

Jean Nouvel   Qatar   La nueva torre se integra dentro de una operación que busca salpicar con edificios emblemáticos la costa de Doha. Su estructura perimetral de acero y hormigón se envuelve con una doble piel, la interior de vidrio y la exterior formada por patrones su

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   It took 18 years to build, has nearly a mile of galleries and is inspired by a desert rose. Hundreds of huge white plates lie scattered along the roadside in the centre of Doha, Qatar, as if someone has had a spectacular accident with a gigantic

The excessive art complex that the Qatari authorities are raising in downtown Doha, with buildings like the Museum of Islamic Art by Ieoh Ming Pei and the National Museum of Qatar by Jean Nouvel already standing, will soon have a no less ambitious ad

Giving spectacular panoramic views of the Qatari capital, Santiago Calatrava’s Sharq Crossing will interconnect three bridges through underwater tunnels in Doha Bay. With a total length of 12 kilometers, the new set of arteries will take pressure off

Situada entre la nueva ciudad y el norte de la bahía de la capital de Qatar, la torre de oficinas Doha destaca por el remate en antena de inspiración árabe y la estructura de tipo diagrid que permite transmitir mejor las cargas y liberar el espacio i

Jean Nouvel ha presentado en el MoMA de Nueva York su proyecto para el Museo Nacional de Qatar, un edificio que pretende convertirse en un nuevo hito cultural dentro de la región del Golfo Pérsico. El museo toma como referencia formal la geometría de

François Chaslin   Allí estaba Ieoh Ming Pei, un poco más encorvado que anteriormente, pero apenas; un poco más lento, con su bastón como el cetro de un anciano sabio, el rostro moteado, siempre con la sonrisa burlona de un hombre que mira a los demás con condescendenc