These photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li show the monumental form of IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art, eight years after the building completed in Doha, Qatar.

New York-based Jazzy Li captures both the exterior and interior of the museum, which Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei, 99, designed for artificial island on the Arabian Gulf just off the Doha Corniche ? a waterfront promenade along the bay that borders Qatar's capital city of Doha.

Taken during the stifling Qatari summer, the photographer's day and night images showcase changing shadows on the museum's light-stone volumes.

Staggered backwards to rise around a five-storey tower, the blocks house galleries of Islamic artwork arranged around a grand central atrium. On the north side, a glass curtain wall offers panoramic views of the Gulf and West Bay area of Doha from all five floors of gallery space.
"The exterior geometric form, cladded in French limestone, is mesmerising to observe as the desert sun and night lights activate a constant shadow play,"Jazzy Li told Dezeen.

"The interior geometry is then conceived, executed, and maintained in such purity, rigour, and precision that make wandering through the space a pleasure itself," he continued.

Pei, who travelled far and wide to develop an understanding of Islamic architecture, based the design on the ninth-century ablution fountain at the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Cairo, where he said he found "a severe architecture that c...