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2008 · Doha, Ad-Dawhah, Qatar

Museum of Islamic Art, Doha image

Seed wave 64 image for the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.

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Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Doha, Ad-Dawhah, Qatar · Exact work coordinates

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Seed wave 64 image for the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.

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Field	Museum of Islamic Art, Doha 2008 · Doha, Ad-Dawhah, Qatar	Joseph Poelaert 1850 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	1850
Place	Doha, Ad-Dawhah, Qatar	Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Place context	Doha, Ad-Dawhah, Qatar	Representative site: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Climate	32°C · 12.9h daylight · 18 km/h wind	15°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Church of Our Lady of Laeken
Focus	Museum	5 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Joseph Poelaert
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Church of Our Lady of Laeken Palace of Justice, Brussels Church of St. Catherine, Brussels La Monnaie
Typologies	museum cultural building waterfront architecture	church sacred space courthouse civic building monumental architecture house performance venue
Materials	limestone glass	stone
Carbon signals	Glass and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass Stone	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions. Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.