Porto Arabia, Qatar

Rising out of the warm waters of the Arabian Gulf, Porto Arabia at The Pearl Qatar was conceived as the region’s latest luxury real estate destination. BFG was tasked with delivering the architect’s vision of an Arabian Riviera by developing a huge variety of traditional domes. In all, BFG designed, engineered and installed 37 FRP composite domes across the Porto Arabia site, each of a different design and in a dazzling variety of surface finishes. The entrance dome alone is 19 metres in diameter and topped with a distinctive copper cladding. Fabricated by hand in single skin structural FRP segments, the domes are textured and finished to maintain their pristine appearance for decades.