Flanked on its sides by a number of major infrastructural elements of Doha's periphery, the Qatar Cultural and Sports Hub is in an essential location. The seven hundred and forty two hectares of recreational, sporting, and residential expanse are divided up into distinct areas.  The Old Port is redesigned as a promenade dotted with cultural developments. The South Ledge is a park running unbrokenly alongside the sea maintaining within it the already existing hotel complexes. The Sports Plaza is a pedestrian link between the four other districts which spans across the highway.  Salt Lake Valley is an Olympic-sized rowing pool surrounded by a park and upmarket accommodation. The landscape becomes fundamental in unifying these spaces with programmatic diversity involved. A strategy that gradually provides, from south to north, large landscape structures which serve in framing the capital, allows these different terrains to be understood and grasped in their totality. The overall plan succeeds in joining the city's arid inland area with its coast. The rowing pool is surrounded by a dune-like topography, itself striated by planted corridors providing shade. The landscape renders identifiable the devices at play :  rawdats, rocky formations, cultivated gardens, wetlands, and artificial mangroves, succeed one another up to the sea.