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Qatar Duty Free (QDF) has added four new premium shopping boutiques to its portfolio of retail destinations at Hamad International Airport (HIA). Passengers looking for luxury brands as they travel through Doha will now be able to shop at Coach, Mont Blanc, Almotahajiba and Hugo Boss, as well as more than 70 other retail outlets that are already available within 25,000 sq m of retail space at the airport. “We […]
Read MoreSpinneys, a leading retailer in the Middle East and North Africa, has opened its third and largest branch in Doha. The new supermarket is located at The Pearl-Qatar’s Medina Centrale District. Visitors to the store will notice the ambience and “exceptional” finishing of the environment in the supermarket, designed to allow customers to efficiently navigate […]
Read MoreDoha’s much anticipated, much delayed new airport, Hamad International (HIA), has finally welcomed its first passengers. At close to noon today, Fly Dubai flight FZ015 from Dubai touched down at the terminal 45 minutes behind schedule, signaling the beginning of passenger operations at the airport. About half an hour earlier, a ceremonial Qatar Airways flight carrying VIPs […]
Read MoreALRIWAQ, Qatar Museums Authority, Doha, Qatar – 10 October, 2013 – 22 January, 2014 The largest retrospective survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever to be assembled is on display at Qatar Museums Authority, Doha (10 October 2013 – 22 January 2014). Spanning over 27 years of Hirst’s iconic career, ‘Relics’ is the artist’s first solo show in the […]
Read MoreTakashi Murakami’s latest art installation, Ego, is now free to the public until its last day on June 24, Qatar Museums Authority has said. The exhibit, which is at Al Riwaq Doha (next to the Museum of Islamic Art) is Murakami’s […]
Read MoreTakashi Murakami’s First Exhibition in the Middle East Offers Glimpse into the Artist’s Universe Murakami-Ego features 16 new works, including a 100-meter work created in response to recent natural disasters in Japan. On view Until June 24, 2012 at Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall, Doha, Qatar Doha, February 2012: For his first exhibition in the Middle […]
Read MoreNothing says Ego quite like a six-metre-high inflatable structure of one’s self. Sitting crossed-legged in the entrance of Al Riwaq, Doha’s warehouse-style art space, the giant Takashi Murakami looks down on visitors to the artist’s first Middle East exhibition. Dressed in a white T-shirt and shorts and sporting those famous round, silver framed glasses, the […]
Read MoreQatar Museums Authority will host a major exhibition by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami – his first solo exhibition in the Middle East – early next year. The exhibit, Murakami – Ego, will be on from February 9 – June 24 at the Museum of Islamic Art. QMA says the show will “immerse visitors in a fantasy world … capturing the […]
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When the roof of the new Centre Court at Wimbledon is closed to enable all-weather play, sophisticated air-conditioning systems using Aermec chillers will be called into play to provide the optimum environment for the grass and comfort for spectators. Nine Aermec RV 3603E low-noise chillers with screw compressors using R407C will provide chilled water to […]
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