Artificial Sand Dune to House New Museum


	Artificial Sand Dune to House New Museum

Rebecca Ruiz

8-28-2008 2:30 PM

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Rebecca Ruiz says:

According to this blog post on Gizmodo, the new Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, Qatar is being built in an artificial 350,000 square foot sand dune. It won't be completed until 2011, but in the meantime take a look at the mock-up.

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8-29-2008 3:52 AM

tanyamm

Sounds like it would be worth seeing.

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