Katara Towers rises from the waterfront of Lusail City in a crescent arc that references Qatar's national emblem of crossed scimitars — a piece of civic symbolism rendered at 36 storeys and reflected, with uncanny completeness, in the still water below. Fairmont Doha, which claimed one of the two towers when the complex opened in 2022, was designed by Dar Al Handasah with Kling Consult leading as the project's executive and interior design consultant. The building's curved curtain-wall facade wraps guest rooms around a generous arc of sky and Gulf, and the architects leaned into the nautical logic of that shape: Kling Consult's interiors draw explicitly from super-yacht design, a reference that gives every surface a sense of considered tautness. Inside, the palette shifts between extremes — guest rooms arrive in cream linen and duck-egg blue, with barrel-vaulted headboards upholstered in ribbed ivory fabric that feel like the interior of a beautifully appointed vessel's cabin. The restaurant spaces turn dramatically darker: amber resin Tulip-form chairs, mirrored ceilings that ripple like disturbed water, and floor-to-ceiling glass framing the city lights far below. Anchoring the atrium is what the hotel claims to be the world's tallest chandelier, a 56-metre cascade of light suspended through all 36 floors. With 362 rooms finished in dark wood, white leather, and 18-karat gold tile details, the property navigates the tension between restraint and spectacle — and mostly pulls it off.

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