Museum of Islamic Art

Also known as متحف الفن الإسلامي

Architect

I.M. Pei

Year

2008

Style

Contemporary

Type

museum

A 45,000-square-meter museum on a purpose-built island off Doha's Corniche, completed in 2008 and the last major museum designed by I.M. Pei, then 91. Pei spent six months traveling the Muslim world before settling on the abstracted…

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2008
Original construction
I.M. Pei

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