The Qatar Electricity and Water Authority (Kahramaa) has chosen South Korean contractor Samsung C&T Construction to build a $3.7bn combined power and desalination plant near Doha, Business Korea reports. When…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…