Fire Station Museum
Former civil defense fire station reborn as a contemporary art residency behind its original honeycomb facade.
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This guide to the Fire Station Museum in Doha traces the honeycomb-screened compound from its start in 1982 as home to Qatar's first civil defense authority, through the firefighters who worked here until it closed in late 2012 and sat empty for two years. It follows architect Ibrahim Al Jaidah's brief from Qatar Museums to keep the building's skin while gutting its interior, and the choices he made behind that restored facade. Listen for how the same screen built to shield firefighters from the desert sun now does very different work inside.
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