Qatar Museums shortlists architects for Art Mill project

Qatar Museums has announced an eight-strong shortlist of architects to covert former grain silos on the Doha waterfront into a vast gallery. The architect Renzo Piano is still a contender as is Elemental, the practice of the 2016 Prizker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena. But David Chipperfield did not make the finalists chosen by a jury that includes Sheikha Mayassa, the head of Qatar Museums who is sister of the emir, and the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.
 
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