Art Mill Competition Long-List

John Hill

17. August 2015

The competition's waterfront site (Photo: Courtesy of Malcolm Reading Consultants)

Qatar Museums has announced the long-list of 26 architects selected from 489 submissions in the international search for the architect who will design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in Doha.

Per the Art Mill competition website, "The Art Mill will be one of the largest and most forward-looking art galleries in the world ... with architectural integrity and presence for the spectacular and historic waterfront site reserved for the project." The site is now occupied by Qatar Flour Mills, which will move to a purpose-built site elsewhere. Further, "The new institution will complete Doha’s acclaimed sequence of museums devoted to art, including notably, I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art, and Jean Nouvel’s forthcoming National Museum of Qatar."

The long-list candidates are being asked to "to envision strategies for the site and its links to the city." From these analyses, a shortlist of five architects will be announced in early 2016.

The long-list 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