News ZHA designs Qatar seafront neighbourhood Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled the design for The Grove, a seafront neighbourhood and marina on Qatar’s Qetaifan Bay. Developed by JMJ Group Holding and Qetaifan Projects, The Grove…
News Early design completed for “Development Road” between Iraq and Turkey Preliminary design work on a 1,200km motorway between Iraq and Turkey – known as the “Development Road” – has been completed, World Highways reports. It’s intended to support an economic…
News Herzog & de Meuron unveils designs for Qatar’s Lusail Museum Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its plans for Qatar’s Lusail Museum, a five-storey, 30m-tall structure with 11,000 sq m of floor space that will hold the world’s…
News Zaha Hadid Architects set to design seven mixed-used buildings in Qatar Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has signed a memorandum of understanding to design seven mixed-use buildings on Qetaifan Island North in Qatar. The $271m deal with conglomerate JMJ Group and real…
News Qatar unveils four museums and a school at Venice biennale Qatar has unveiled five cultural venues at the 18th Venice architecture biennale. The exhibition, called Building a Creative Nation, displays renderings, studies, models and video of: Art Mill Museum, designed…
News Qatar awards $10bn LNG contract to French–Greek joint venture QatarEnergy said yesterday that it had awarded an EPC contract worth about $10bn to a joint venture between France’s Technip Energies and Greece-based Consolidated Contractors Company. The deal aims to…
Markets How Qatar pulled off its World Cup triumph – and what it’s planning next Qatar’s World Cup Finals were generally thought to have been one of the most successful of modern times. Over the 29 days of the competition, more than 1.4 million visitors…
News Vinci denies worker-abuse claims in Qatar ahead of charges this week Vinci Group defended its record on workers’ rights in Qatar today as it confirmed that its subsidiary Vinci Construction Grands Projets had been summoned to appear before an investigating judge…
News Qatar’s demountable shipping container stadium completed Stadium 974, a 40,000-capacity venue designed by Spanish architect Fenwick Iribarren Architects and built from recycled shipping containers and modular steel has been completed in Doha ahead of the 2022…