Saturday, May 12, 2007
Doha is growing...
The background noise in Doha isn't the relaxing sound of birds singing or crickets chirping, it's drilling, digging and pile-driving. Day or night, the gentle chugging of machinary is never far away.
Houses, hotels and shopping centres are springing up all the time. In the last 6 months another shopping centre has opened just round the corner from my house, called Villagio.
Have you ever been to the Venitian in Las Vegas? Well, the architect of the Villagio certainly has!
...after all, what shopping centre would be complete without a gondala?
Not all the shops are open yet, but there's quite a few familiar names, including Virgin Megastore, Next, Topshop, Zara, Monsoon, Karen Millen, Wallis...and there's soon to be a Boots too.
As well as shops, there's also plenty of restaurants, including Pizza Express, TGI Friday's, as well as the to-be-expected McDonalds and Burger King...and in Doha, Burger King even do home delivery!
And if you eat too much, then you can always work it off with a quick skate around the ice rink.
Ice skating...what else would you do in a desert?
Houses, hotels and shopping centres are springing up all the time. In the last 6 months another shopping centre has opened just round the corner from my house, called Villagio.
Have you ever been to the Venitian in Las Vegas? Well, the architect of the Villagio certainly has!
...after all, what shopping centre would be complete without a gondala?
Not all the shops are open yet, but there's quite a few familiar names, including Virgin Megastore, Next, Topshop, Zara, Monsoon, Karen Millen, Wallis...and there's soon to be a Boots too.
As well as shops, there's also plenty of restaurants, including Pizza Express, TGI Friday's, as well as the to-be-expected McDonalds and Burger King...and in Doha, Burger King even do home delivery!
And if you eat too much, then you can always work it off with a quick skate around the ice rink.
Ice skating...what else would you do in a desert?
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My name is Marco Adriani, I live in Milan and I'm the interior designer (in a little group) of Villaggio Mall in Doha.
No, I haven't been in Las Vegas. But We know what is italian architecture. And when you can see the Villaggio Extension (opening soon), you can see a better application of our intension...
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My name is Marco Adriani, I live in Milan and I'm the interior designer (in a little group) of Villaggio Mall in Doha.
No, I haven't been in Las Vegas. But We know what is italian architecture. And when you can see the Villaggio Extension (opening soon), you can see a better application of our intension...
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