Our Beginnings
The Fire Station was originally built in 1982 and was the home of Qatar's first civil defence authority until late 2012, operating as a working fire station. It was repurposed and renovated in 2014 as an 'adaptive reuse project' to host Fire Station: Artist in Residence initiative. Lead architect, Ibrahim Al-Jaida, actively preserved the original details of the building, such as its distinctive honeycomb façade and the tower and in doing so helped to preserve a piece of Doha's early-modern architecture. The annex and extended building were later additions to the original structure and together with the plaza, they form the Fire Station complex.
