Visitors to the just-opened National Museum of Qatar will be immersed in Qatar’s cultural heritage through Koichi Takada Architects’ designs of its Museum shops, Desert Rose Café, Cafe 875 and Jiwan Restaurant.
After eight years in the making, Sydney-based Koichi Takada’s much-anticipated interior designs of the museum were revealed at the museum’s end of March grand opening..
Koichi Takada Architects won an international competition to design the interiors in 2012.
The exterior of the National Museum of Qatar was designed by French architect and Pritzker prize winner, Jean Nouvel.
The design of the interiors by Koichi Takada Architects are an embodiment of the Qatari history, the beginnings of the trade, nomadic lifestyle and beautiful natural environment.
The interior design concept “desert-scapes” was carefully curated to create a local cultural experience for visitors, while bowing to Nouvel’s architectural masterpiece.
Takada said, “The museum’s desert rose-inspired space is a mirage within which visitors will lose a sense of time wandering between the past and future. The National Museum of Qatar will give a voice to Qatar’s cultural heritage whilst celebrating its future identity.”