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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	Souto de Moura Arquitectos 1980 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	1980
Place	Doha, Ad-Dawhah, Qatar	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Doha, Ad-Dawhah, Qatar	Representative site: Real, Dume e Semelhe, Real, Dume e Semelhe, Portugal
Climate	26°C · 12.9h daylight · 13 km/h wind	15°C · 13.6h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Estádio Municipal de Braga
Focus	Museum	3 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Eduardo Souto de Moura
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Estádio Municipal de Braga Casa das Historias Paula Rego Trindade station (Porto Metro)
Typologies	museum cultural building waterfront architecture	sports venue museum art museum cultural building civic building
Materials	limestone glass	concrete
Carbon signals	Glass and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass Stone	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
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.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.