Desert rose made of concrete - National Museum of Qatar

Figure: Andreas Keller

View from the southern forecourt to the museum grounds

Figure: Andreas Keller

Figure: H.G. Esch

The individual façade panels consist of approx. 76,000 fiber-reinforced concrete elements in total

Figure: H.G. Esch

Figure: Werner Sobek

CAD model of the secondary steel structure

Figure: Werner Sobek

Aerial view of the almost completed National Museum

Figure: Werner Sobek

The French architect, Jean Nouvel, has designed the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, the capital city of the country. The building consists of 539 double-curved and interlocking fiber-reinforced concrete panels with diameters of up to 87 m.

The involvement of the Arabian culture is consistent throughout the entire building designed by the French star architect, Jean Nouvel, who was awarded with the 2008 Pritzker Prize, that is often referred to as the „Oscar of architecture“. Now the new National Museum in Doha, the capital city of Qatar, is part of a row together with the Louvre Dependance in Abu Dhabi (2017) and the Institut du Monde Arabe cultural center in Paris (1987), the very first building designed by Nouvel at all. His current building, with a size of about 450 m x 250 m, can confidently be referred to as an...