Art Mill International Design Competition Doha, Qatar Architecture Contest Winner, Architect, Project
Art Mill International Design Competition
Cultural Development in Doha, Qatar, The Gulf, Middle East – Design Contest won by ELEMENTAL
15 May 2017
Art Mill International Design Competition Winner
ELEMENTAL Wins Art Mill International Design Competition in Qatar
ELEMENTAL WINS QATAR?S ART MILL INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION
Qatar Museums announced today (15 May 2017) that the Chile-based architecture practice, ELEMENTAL, has won the Art Mill International Design Competition, a global search to find an outstanding team to design one of the world?s leading cultural centres.
ELEMENTAL was selected by an international jury, from 26-strong longlist, based on their strategies for the site and its links to the city. ELEMENTAL?s concept design for the historic waterfront site in the centre of Doha took as its inspiration the rhythmic monumental grain silos that are the industrial legacy of the original Flour Mills on the site, which have produced bread for the State since the 1980s. However, in a creative riff, the team added to the strict geometry of retained silos a looser grouping of new silos that will act as cooling chimneys circulating air through the site that extends spectacularly on three sides into Doha Bay. ELEMENTAL Art Mill Concept Design:

image © Malcolm Reading Consultants and Elemental
The concept design was praised by the international jury as ?a serene ...