Enormous Artificial Sand Dune To House Museum of Modern Arab Art

If you happen to be drive through the desert near Doha , Qatar and notice an unusual turn of Bentleys and Ferraris parked in front of a George Sand dune , you may find you ’re in reality look at the Museum of Modern Arab Art , a two - floor , air - specify 350,000 - square - infantry facility celebrating over 10,000 works of art .

The museum , designed by architect Rafael Viñoly in NYC , will be completed by 2011 , and willshow off a collectionof 5,000 paintings , 700 antiques , sculptures , metalworking and ceramics , a penmanship section — not fancy party invitations , mind you , but in an elaborate way ornate mural and manuscripts drift from the early Qur’anic period to advanced times — and other areas will include photography and applied arts . It may not surprise you to get it on that this aggregation is actually entirely owned by one fashion plate , Sheikh Hassan Bin Mohammed Al - Thani , which he jump amassing 10 short old age ago . If I’mreading this correctly , an engineering firm for the project reports that the construction ’s surface will be a canvas - like material , and that the whole thing was a bitch to air condition , given the combining of Modern material , desert clime and invaluable humidity - sensitive artworks . Speaking of “ invaluable , ” I ca n’t find a dollar sign - shape for the project itself , but it suffices to say this will be the most expensive grit dune this side of Arrakis . It may not be the most expensive modernistic arab art museum , however . A Dutch architect phone Ben van Berkel is concoct a Star Trek - esque construction for the Museum of Middle East Modern Art , to be progress on the banks of the Dubai Creek . Me , I ’ll take the Frank Herbert over the Gene Roddenberry any day of the hebdomad . Check out more pic and discussion at the site source . [ Dezeen ]

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