Somewhere between Udaipur and the Arabian Gulf, WATG found an architectural logic that few Gulf properties have attempted with such conviction. The Chedi Katara Hotel & Resort, which arrived within Doha's Katara Cultural Village in 2022, draws its formal vocabulary from Rajasthani Indo-Islamic palace architecture — the chhatri-crowned corner towers, the layered arcades of pointed arches, the surface relief work — and sets it flush against a private beach on the Qatari coast. The effect is closer to a Mughal summer palace than a contemporary resort hotel, and from the water the building's all-white massing, reflected back in the infinity pool, doubles into something almost hallucinatory. WATG and its subsidiary Wimberly Interiors carried the same language through all 91 keys — 59 rooms and suites alongside 32 pool villas spread across a 66,000 square metre plot. Inside, the Lobby Lounge rises to a ten-metre Mughal courtyard ceiling, while the dining spaces feature black-and-white marble tiling in geometric patterns beneath ornate plasterwork friezes and glazed pointed arches that frame the Gulf beyond. Guest rooms are kept deliberately calm: warm walnut bed frames, hand-knotted rugs with botanical and geometric motifs, whitewashed walls dressed with carved plaster jali details, and balconies with pierced-screen balustrades facing open water. The restraint indoors makes the palazzo-scale exterior feel earned rather than theatrical.

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