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The Art Mill Museum
| Owner | Qatar Museums Authority |
Estimated Value | US$ 120,000,000 |
| Sector |
Infrastructure |
Sub Sector |
Leisure and Entertainment |
| Country |
Qatar |
City |
Doha |
| Capacity | 92,900 sq m (Built Up Area), 83,500 sqm (Land Area) | Feasibility Start Date | Q4-2016 |
| Status | FEED/Design | Project End Date | Q1-2021 |
| Owner | Qatar Museums Authority |
| Estimated Value | US$ 120,000,000 |
| Sector |
Infrastructure |
| Sub Sector |
Leisure and Entertainment |
| City |
Doha |
| Country |
Qatar |
| Capacity | 92,900 sq m (Built Up Area), 83,500 sqm (Land Area) |
| Feasibility Start Date | Q4-2016 |
| Status | FEED/Design |
| Project End Date | Q1-2021 |
Project Overview
Background
Qatar plans to convert a vast flour mill and its grain silos into spaces for art and to house Qatar Museums Authority (QMA’s) varied and growing collections. The waterfront site is across Doha Bay from the I.M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art and close to Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar, which is under construction.
The proposed site for the Art Mill was originally a key node within the Arabian Gulf port, essential for the import of grain. It is presently occupied by Qatar Flour Mills, which sits to the east of Museum of Islamic Art (MIA). The site has a distinctive open aspect with three sides adjoining Doha Bay, and the other linking the city. The mill operation will now move to purpose-built new facilities.
The industrial process of milling has left a fascinating legacy in the layout and spaces of the existing buildings on the site, notably voluminous spaces and a rhythmic, patterned promenade of vertical silos. Some of the Flour Mills buildings possess an authentic monumentality in terms of positioning, scale and noble forms. Re-using and adapting these structures will be integral to the project.
Scope of Work
Construction of a museum with a 92,900 sqm built up area and over a 83,500 sqm land including:
- Gallery and exhibition space
- Education and conference space
- Events space
- Conservation and storage space
- Visitor’s amenities space
- An underground parking
- Other related facilities
The site area is circa 83,500 sq / 898,787 sq ft It is anticipated that extensive outside space will be integrated with the design, offering opportunities for cross-programming and public engagement as well as creating a beautiful and sustainable setting.
The building (or buildings) is/are expected to contain between 60,000sq m and 80,000 sq m of gross space (645,835 sq ftand 861,113 sq ft), plus underground parking.
While predominantly comprising gallery and exhibition space, the museum’s brief also includes extensive education, conference and event space, as well as state-of-the-art conservation and storage to match the diversity of the collection. There will also be facilities to support the community and provide amenities for visiting families.
Adjoining and linked to MIA park, and a few minutes’ walk from Doha’s famous Corniche, the site offers panoramic views across the bay to the skyline of the financial district.
Finance
Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) is financing the construction of this museum.
Additional Notes
Gifted with one of the most spectacular and historic sites in the centre of Doha, the Art Mill will be pre-eminent in Doha’s waterfront ensemble of institutions dedicated to art and is expected to become one of the world’s leading cultural centres.
QMA launched an international competition to acquire a suitable architect to convert the industrial buildings into what it calls the Art Mill Museum. Organized by Malcolm Reading Consultants, the competition winner is due to be announced in the summer of 2017. Work would then commence in the secong half of 2017, while the detailed brief and budget for the project are due to be announced later that year.
In June 2017, the competition was won by Chile-based practice, Elemental, whose design was described by the jury as ‘a serene artwork, where the structure is the architecture’. Elemental is led by Alejandro Aravena, the 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate, and is supported by climate engineers, Transsolar KlimaEngineering; structural engineers, Schlaich Bergermann & Partner; and global design consultants, Stantec.
Elemental’s winning concept 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.
Related Companies
Owner
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Qatar Museums Authority Qatar Museums Tower, Al Meena Street Tel: +974 4452 5555 Email: [email protected] Web: www.qma.com.qa |
Feed/Design
Pre Qualified
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Elemental Av. Los Conquistadores 1700, Piso 29 A 7520282, Providencia, Santiago, Chile Tel: +56 229 637 500 Web: www.elementalchile.cl/en |
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Stantec 10160-112 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 2L6 Tel: +1 780 917 7000, +1 866 782 6832 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Web: www.stantec.com |
Sub-contractor
Pre Qualified
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Malcolm Reading Consultants Limited 10 Ely Place, EC1N 6RY Tel: +44 20 7831 2998 Email: [email protected] Web: malcolmreading.co.uk |
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Schlaich Bergermann & Partner Schwabstraße 43, 70197 Stuttgart, Germany Tel: +49 711 64871-0 Email: [email protected] Web: www.sbp.de/en/ |
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Transsolar KlimaEngineering Curiestrasse 2 70563, Stuttgart, Germany Tel: +49 711 679 760 Email: [email protected] Web: www.transsolar.com |
Updates
| Jul 2017 | Transsolar KlimaEngineering has been selected as the climate engineering consultant, while Schlaich Bergermann & Partner has been appointed as the structural consultants on the scheme. |
| May 2017 | Elemental from Chile has been appointed as the lead design architect. They will be assisted by Canadian based Stantec. |
| Mar 2017 | Approximately 20 architectural firms have been shortlisted for the design consultancy contract. An award is expected in May. |
| Feb 2017 | Front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract is expected to be awarded in March 2017. |
| Dec 2016 | The client has appointed UK-based Malcolm Reading Consultants Limited as the strategic architectural consultants. Their role will be to organize a competition to select the lead design architect. |
| Oct 2016 | Feasibility study is currently underway for the construction of an art mill museum in Doha, Qatar. |