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Fort al Fateh Museum

The architects of PAD about the Fort al Fateh Museum: “An essential key to understanding this project is the use of stone for building within an established historical setting.The choice of sandstone, created by layers of sand compressed and solidified over thousands of years, for use in an urban landscape rising from the Middle Eastern desert, is particularly significant.The colours of the existing and pre-existing setting represent an additional element of continuity, in terms of the relationship between the tones of the stone form the

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