Hotel Park
Landscaped waterfront park built over four buried levels of parking sealed against the water table.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hotel Park in Doha traces the fight to build it, starting in 2006 when Qatari Diar's plan for fountains, lawns and buried parking hit a water table sitting almost at the surface on this stretch of reclaimed shoreline. It follows the eight-year construction that began in 2008, as crews sank dewatering wells twenty to twenty-five meters down and pumped groundwater around the clock. The guide also covers the roughly two hundred thousand cubic meters of concrete and forty thousand tonnes of steel poured to seal the site.
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