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Twenty-six firms long-listed from five continents to progress to the second stage of the three-stage competition of Art Mill. Global search for the designer of one of the world’s leading cultural centres attracts 489 entries from 56 countries. Celebrated and emerging architects featured in the selection.

The global search for the designer of the Art Mill in Doha, envisioned as one of the world’s leading cultural centres, is gathering momentum as Qatar Museums yesterday announced the long-list of twenty-six architects, chosen from a field of 489 submissions. These competitors, from countries including Spain, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and Canada, amongst others, will go forward to the second stage of the design competition. The firms are, in alphabetical order:

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz

Adam Khan Architects

Aires Mateus e Associados

Arab Engineering Bureau

Atelier Bow-Wow

Barozzi / Veiga

David Chipperfield Architects

EAA Emre Arolat Architects

Eduardo Souto de Moura Architects

Elemental

Grupo Aranea

heneghan peng architects

Johnston Marklee

junya.ishigami + associates

Lacaton & Vassal

Mangado Architects_Mangado & Associados

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Noero Architects and The Matrix… cc Urban Designers and Architects

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen + l’AUC

Patkau Architects

Project Meganom

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Rice+Lipka Architects

SO-IL

Sou Fujimoto Architects

image courtesy of qatar museums / malcolm reading consultants

The project involves the redevelopment of a spectacular and historic waterfront site in the centre of Doha, at the heart of an emerging cultural quarter of the city. The Art Mill is conceived as a vibrant and multi-layered civic and cultural presence, a focus for the emerging campus of museums and cultural institutions at the eastern end of the Corniche.

Currently occupied by Qatar Flour Mills, the site extends into Doha Bay, with the Arabian Sea on three sides. It adjoins the park around I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art, and is close to key landmarks, including the Corniche and Jean Nouvel’s forthcoming National Museum of Qatar (under construction).

Long-listed competitors will be asked to envision strategies for the site and its links to the city. From the best of these analyses, a shortlist of five architects will be announced in early 2016. These five will be given further briefing and progress onto more detailed concept designs for the conversion and extension of the Flour Mills’ structures.

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