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Jean Nouvel: The National Museum of Qatar: Directed by Philip Smith. With Anthony Howell. Landmark film about an astonishing new building and the Pritzker Prize winning architect Jean Nouvel.
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- Anthony Howell
Mar 29, 2019 · Completed in 2019 in Qatar. Images by Iwan Baan. The building design is inspired by a mineral formation commonly found in the deserts of the Gulf region. The ‘desert rose’ is a rock ...
- María Francisca González
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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, its the contradictions in that history that Ive sought to evoke here. I owe my love of things that a...
Three economic miracles occurred to shake up this overwhelming tranquility. The first, dating from Roman times, was associated with pearl fishing and the pearl trade. The second, in the aftermath of the Second World War, was the amazing discovery of oil, followed twenty years later by the discovery of another treasure: gas. The desert peninsula of ...
The building I designed needed to reflect these three different stories. The first, which covers a long period, is the story of the peninsula and its inhabitants. The second is an exploration of the coastal and desert lifestyles as well as the pearling industry, and third covers the spectacular acceleration that gave the kingdom in just a few deca...
The desert rose, a flower-like aggregate of mineral crystals occurring only in arid coastal regions, is the first architectural structure that nature itself creates, through wind, sea spray and sand acting together over millennia. Its surprisingly complex and poetic.
As in a lot of other museums, the circuit forms a loop. The complete tour takes about two hours and ends in discovery of the old Royal Palace, which has been restored. From certain points, you can access the Howsh. Following the time-honoured template, this is a central courtyard surrounded by buildings where travellers would come and unload their ...
The Howsh gives an idea of the scale of the Royal Palace. Its a sheltered space, with the museum built around it. Thanks to disks tilted at different angles, it also offers shade. This space can accommodate outdoor events, performances, theatre pieces, events connected to the exhibitions. The Howsh is also connected to the outdoor spaces of the old...
The building is extremely energy efficient. The disks that make up its structure are heavy and form a sort of cushioned barrier that acts as a sunscreen. When the sun hits the building from east or west, the disks cast long protective shadows. The building doesnt have a lot of openings, and the few windows it does have are set back so that theyre a...
The skin of the building is made of high-performance glass fibre-reinforced concrete thats the same sandy beige colour inside and outside the building.
As for the museography, I have worked in close collaboration with the National Museum to launch the opening with a series of films that provide glimpses of different aspects of Qatar and its history. Made by filmmakers and video artists handpicked for their talent as creators of evocative poetic images, these films are sensitive testaments to past ...
As one of the country’s latest monumental works, Ateliers Jean Nouvel ’s National Museum of Qatar set out to address the contradictions and contrasts between Qatar’s past and present. Harnessing one of the region’s most distinctive natural features, the design was inspired by a flower-like aggregate of mineral crystals known as a desert ...
Apr 9, 2019 · Jean Nouvel on the Newly Completed National Museum of Qatar. With 11 permanent galleries, the $434 million, 430,000-square-foot structure offers an unparalleled, immersive journey into the history ...
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Mar 28, 2019 · Jean Nouvel is a French architect and the 2008 laureate of the annual Pritzker Prize. Alongside the National Museum of Qatar, he recently completed the Louvre Abu Dhabi, another large museum in ...
May 25, 2022 · The iconic structure was completed in 2019. Nouvel designed the museum in the shape of a desert rose. Its interlocking disks wrapped around a central court exhibit unique segments of Qatar's history, heritage and contemporary influences. Architect Jean Nouvel tours the National Museum of Qatar before its opening to the public.
