• Desert rose: National Museum of Qatar by Ateliers Jean Nouvel

    Ateliers Jean Nouvel’s new National Museum of Qatar in Doha is an overtly dramatic, yet at the same time gentle, structure based on naturally occurring desert rose mineral formations

  • Pleasure dome: Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel

    Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first building in a proposed new cultural quarter for the city, on land reclaimed from the sea. The building draws on traditional Arab architectural patterns, lighting and forms, but delivers an ambitious programme using 21st-century technologies, materials and sophistication

  • Architects of Philanthropy

    Stephen Hitchins takes a look at the problem of museum funding and at the different ways Europe and the USA are tackling it