It's not every day that Pritzker Prize-winning architects share a stage with David Beckham, one of the most famous athletes in the world. But there they were: Alejandro Aravena and Jacques Herzog, patiently listening while Beckham spoke, incongruously, about his business ventures and social media following. The trio were on stage Sunday in Doha, Qatar—Beckham to help promote a new museum of sports, and the architects to announce the development of their own new museums in the capital city. Rem Koolhaas, whose firm is designing a third Qatari museum, was unaccounted for.
The planned museums include two newly announced projects, the Lusail Museum for Orientalist art by Herzog & de Meuron and the Qatar Auto Museum by Koolhaas’s OMA, as well as the Art Mill for modern and contemporary art by Aravena and his firm ELEMENTAL. Aravena was selected to design the Art Mill project in 2017.
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