Qatar National Library Review

Qatar National Library acts as a steward of Qatar’s national heritage by collecting, preserving and making available the country’s recorded history. In its role as a research library with a preeminent heritage library, the Library fosters and promotes greater global insight into the history and culture of the Gulf region. As a public library, we provide equal access for all of Qatar's residents to an environment that supports creativity, independent decision-making, and cultural development. Through all our functions, we provide leadership to the country’s library and cultural heritage sector.

#Traveling happy times The Qatar National Library can be divided into four sections: the National Library, the Public Library, the University and the Research Library, and the cultural heritage collection with precious Arabic-Islamic texts and manuscripts. The public library covers an area of 42,000 square meters and contains more than one million books and can accommodate thousands of readers at a time. The newly built National Library is an important part of Qatar's "New City for Education", which will have many international first-class universities in the future. OMA’s projects in this educational park also include the headquarters of the Qatar Foundation and a new division of the research center.

Qatar | Doha Education City · Qatar National Library Qatar National Library:Education City, Al Luqta St, Doha, Qatar: Friday: 16:00– 20:00; Other: 08:00– 20:00: The newly completed Qatar National Library includes the Doha National Library, Public Library and University Library, and contains valuable documents and manuscript heritage on Arab-Islamic culture. The public library will contain more than one million books and provide a reading area of more than 42,000 square meters for thousands of readers. The library is part of the Education Park, which also houses the branches of many of the world's top universities. Tips: Atmospheric appearance, it is recommended to come here to take a night view, the night view of the National Library building is very beautiful. There is an international canteen in the library, the taste is good, the price is excellent, the choice of noodles is also very wide, you must try it, BTW, desserts are delicious! Remember not to face local women, shooting seat: the library is directly opposite the interior of the hallway structure water-printed glass surface to take pictures of the textured world flag next to the wide angle to rise to shoot the bookcase level underground triangular level reading room

Another new work by Koolhass, the designer of Beijing's big pants, which has designed a library with only one floor, the Qatar National Library, which Koolhass himself says is the most satisfying of all his works. The design of the Qatar National Library building is a shell-like structure with two pieces of paper pulled apart at four corners and folded in opposite angles, which ensures a completely open space within the building. The exterior of the building is lifted from the ground, forming three book collection spaces, and the center of the building is surrounded by a triangle, which also ensures that the entrance of the building can directly reach the center of the building, which is amazing. After entering the library, it is the most central location of the library. You can see the whole picture of the library at a glance, and the shelves cannot be extended indefinitely to four weeks. Under the square in the center is a six-meter deep ancient library, which is because the preservation of ancient books should avoid sunlight as much as possible, because it is impossible to place them in a ventilated and transparent environment. In the design process, Koolhass makes the underground ancient library look like an archaeological site. Its interior uses building materials such as marble and is also distinguished from other modern materials in the library space, mainly stainless steel.