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The National Museum of Qatar emerges from a desert that has ventured all the way to the sea…
The National Museum is dedicated to the history of Qatar. Symbolically, its architecture evokes the desert, its silent and eternal dimension, but also the spirit of modernity and daring that have come along and shaken up what seemed unshakeable. So, it’s the contradictions in that history that I’ve sought to evoke here.”
“I wanted to create a structure that evoked the local geography and, in keeping with the tradition of the place, to ensure that it offers maximum protection from the sun.”
Jean Nouvel
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Ateliers Jean Nouvel (AJN) is a world-renowned design firm that gathers a multicultural team of 130 people from more than twenty countries. Ateliers Jean Nouvel combines the disciplines of architecture, urban planning, interior design, landscape design, graphic design, and product design into a single integrated practice. Jean Nouvel’s award winning designs and reputation have attracted many prestigious commissions. His portfolio of completed projects or projects currently in progress includes museums, concert halls, conference centers, theaters, hotels, residential buildings, office buildings, commercial centers, and private residences. Among them, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the National Museum of Qatar (Doha), the National Art Museum Of China – NAMOC (Beijing), the cultural complex The Artists’ Garden (Qingdao), the Pudong Art Museum (Shanghai), the 53W53 tower integrating the extension of the MoMA galleries (New York), the Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Center – University Of Cyprus (Nicosia), the European Patent Office (Rijswijk), the Tencent headquarters (Guangzhou), the office towers La Marseillaise (Marseille), Duo (Paris), and HEKLA (Paris), the residential towers Le Nouvel KLCC (Kuala Lumpur), Anderson 18 (Singapore), Nouvel Ardmore (Singapore) and Torre Rosewood – Cidade Matarazzo (São Paulo) and the Lux Hotel (Chengdu). source: jeannouvel.com
