Mondrian Tower

The Mondrian Doha, a 24-storey skyscraper containing apartments and a luxury hotel with 270 rooms and suites. Six years of work by SWA, South West Architecture, went into this complex structure with its design inspired by the falcon, a great tradition in the Persian Gulf, featuring amazing ceramic decorations by FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti.
The project for decoration of the Mondrian Doha, implemented with SWA, draws on local knowledge, history, styles and figures, reworked in the light of today’s sentiments and lifestyles, and above all translated using materials and working techniques drawing on the most advanced international experience.
Every space has an identity of its own, allowing guests to put together a set of stories revolving around one main story about Arab culture, incorporating custom-designed furnishings and coverings based on local models, Middle Eastern writing and the imagery of the suk translated into gigantic columns with golden eggs, a "tree of life" made up of flowers, ornamental glass and floral mosaics in the flooring.
The indoor and outdoor cladding, floors and special pieces were made by FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti, starting with the porcelain ventilated façade embracing the outside of the entire height of the tower: 15,000 square metres of FMG slabs wrapping around the building to form two huge falcon wings.
The falcon is a recurrent symbol in the iconography of the project, and in fact the hotel entrance is modelled to look like the beak of a bird of prey, while the podium is covered with a bird’s nest pattern produced using big MaxFine.
Titanium white MaxFine and polished Ivory black create an impressive effect in public areas such as the lobbies, where spectacular floral patterns designed by SWA are created with water jet cutting on a 1500 sqm surface.