Blinking and glistening, melting and glittering, the Doha skyline is like no other. Silhouettes of cities come into being over time. Here, where a few comparatively nondescript buildings rose from the desert sand some 50 years ago (though humans have inhabited this particular neck of the Gulf for well on 50,000 years) a myriad of elevated and striking structures now crowd the horizon and gasp for space.
While there is no defining style there is cohesion of design: an aura of accrued form, a feel of architectural rhyme, a sense of the past beckoning the future.
