The Lusail Stadium, one of 8 they built for the 2022 Fifa World Cup.
Lusail Plaza Tower
Velero Hotel
This just scratches the surface of the towers in Doha and I can't find the name of most of them.
Friday, February 6th.
I relaxed by the pool for a bit while they cleaned my room. Mid afternoon I decided to go hunting for a few buildings I had seen on the road trips. I took the Metro to the north end of the line to the suburb Lusail and then a tram into the community. There is a marina there, with next to no boats and a number of architecturally imaginative and fantasy-like hotels. I wandered around the mostly empty streets taking a few photos for a couple of hours and then took the mostly empty tram back to the Metro and then to my hotel. I think the area I visited was built up to accommodate the Fifa 2022 World Cup and is now largely vacant. I had dinner at the Foul and Falafal restaurant again, this time having Syrian foul (type of bean) with tahini and yogurt with some fresh baked puffy breads. Then I relaxed for the rest of the evening.
Love the egg shaped Velero Hotel and the Lusail Katara Hotel - super interesting architecture - very different from Toronto's boring glass towers.
ReplyDeleteInteresting architecture.
ReplyDeleteYou need to have an incredible sense of art and engineering to construct these unbelievable architectural beauties!
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