Qatar Real Estate News
Dohaland unveiled the signature project Heart of Doha
A subsidiary of Qatar Foundation, Dohaland, yesterday unveiled its signature project Heart of Doha, worth QR20bn. The project, with its blend of tradition and modernity, aims to recreate the old center of the city, and return the lost identity to Doha.
Spreading across a 35-hectare site, around Share-e-Kahraba Street, one of the old centers of Doha, the project will soon commence its first phase and the entire project is hoped to be complete by 2016.
Eng. Issa M Al Mohannadi, CEO of Dohaland, mentioned that this being the first project by the company, it aims to recreate the most vital part of old Doha, such as the Kahraba Street, Musherib Street, and Abdulla Bin Thani Street, and the first Eid ground in Doha, as the area had lost much of its rich community due to migration, and most of its historic neighbourhood was ignored. The company now aims to regain much of its lost lustre and wants to bring it back to life.
Heart of Doha is the collective vision by Emir H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and H.H. Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, supporting the principles of progress and tradition, responsibility and freedom, innovation and stability, new and old cultures.
Heart of Doha will grow to be a city within a city, merging the best of the past with modern technologies. The project is hoped to bring in dynamism to local economy, with school and basic amenities and facilitating community interaction and social exchange in a common, sophisticated public area.
The Heart of Doha aims to utilize natural elements and convert them to modern context. Heart of Doha is aimed to reduce car use and congestion, while also improving connectivity to the wider city area. It will have a whole underground city for residents to enjoy pedestrian areas and peaceful squares with minimal traffic disturbance.
The development will include dense blocks with interconnecting buildings interspersed with network of squares and courtyards. The landscaped streets will run between major blocks of the development, with less access to pedestrian routes and will criss-cross randomly affording more protection from intense heat. Colonades will line several streets offering shading, and a grand central square would become the new destination in Doha.
The project site is located within the Mohamed bin Jassim district, bordered by Al Rayyan Road on the north, Jassim bin Mohamed Street to the East, Al Diwan Street to the West and Mushreib Street to the South. The project will be completed in five phases, with the first phased due for completion by February 2012.
Posted on 27/5/2009