Jean Nouvel in Doha

As you may have noticed, we’re focusing on architecture and design in the Middle East in the run up to the International Design Forum in Dubai next month.

Here are several renderings, model shots, plans and elevations of Jean Nouvel’s High Rise Office Building proposal for Doha in Qatar.

Work has already started on the 45-storey tower, which is due for completion late in 2008.

The glass-clad building is wrapped in a metal brise-soleil based on a traditional Islamic pattern.

>> more Jean Nouvel on dezeen:
Jean Nouvel for Corian
La Philharmonie de Paris by Jean Nouvel (first of three consecutive posts)
100 11th Avenue by Jean Nouvel
More images of Nouvel’s Abu Dhabi museum