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  Project Title

  National Museum of Qatar

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  Winning Firm
  
  

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  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Landmarks / symbolic structures / memorials / public spaces

• Company/Firm
  Jean Nouvel
• Lead Designer
  Jean Nouvel
• Firm Name
  National Museum Of Qatar
• Firm City
  Paris
• Firm Size
  Large Firm (49+ employees)
• Project Status
  Built
• Client
  Qatar Museums (qm)

The National Museum of Qatar emerges from a desert that has ventured all the way to the sea. On the site, the Royal Palace of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani rises up, a twentieth-century landmark of major heritage value to Qatar.

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.