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Constellations Thesis Book by Nesrin Zidan

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Table 5.42. Desert Rose Crystal which can exist only in harsh environments

Taking the desert rose as a starting point

turned out to be a very progressive, not to

say utopian, idea. I say ‘utopian’ because, to

construct a building 350 metres long, with its

great big inward-curving disks, and its intersections

and cantilevered elements – all the

things that conjure up a desert rose – we had

to meet enormous technical challenges. This

building is at the cutting-edge of technology,

like Qatar itself.

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