hopePlate 566 · Doha, Qatar

Souq Waqif

A market rebuilt as itself, because a new city needed an old street.

19th c. / 2006 restoration · Qatari merchants / restoration · Middle East

The chamber score

Fann al-tanbura

Gulf traditional · Qatar

A museum of Islamic art should open on the peninsula's own string.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The restored traditional souq, Doha's most atmospheric civic space.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Souq Waqif through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Souq Waqif was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.