Chasing The Blue Beyond

Doha Port / November 24, 2017 Our Ship Has Come In Crystal Symphony arrives in Doha, and one afternoon at the port opens a passage back to Sarah and Ed’s 110-day world cruise. See Full Image Show Text Arrival Maiden Doha Call World Cruise Memory The Pearl Chapter 01 / Port of Call Crystal Symphony in Doha One of the first cruise ships to reach Qatar and add Doha to its itinerary for the 2017–18 Arabian Gulf season was Crystal Symphony. For most people on the waterfront, it was a new arrival. For Sarah and me, it was a return. The ship was docked in front of us, but the real voyage ran backward—to 2011, eight voyage segments, and 110 days of world cruise daze. Doha Port, November 24, 2017 Crystal Symphony adds Doha to the map—and brings an older map back to life. Port of Call Today A luxury ...

Qatar / 2017 / Field Archive Horses, Hardware & High Design Seven chapters from one asymmetrical year in Qatar: show jumping, simulators, National Day air power, a gold-elevator hotel, a library built for making, classic cars, and the shifting logic of the dunes. See Full Image Show Text 01 · Flying Horses 02 · From Simulator to Live Action 03 · The National Day Airspace 04 · Doha Does Rich 05 · A Library Built for More Than Books 06 · Machines That Remember 07 · The Duneeverse Opening Field Note Qatar Builds in Contrasts In 2017, Qatar kept changing scale. One weekend: horses clearing fences under arena lights. Another: fighter simulators and National Day flyovers. Then a library where instruments could be checked out, a hotel designed like a lucid dream, a warehouse of classic cars, and a desert where the road disappeared beneath the wheels. The connecting idea was not luxury alone. It was orchestration—the ability to move people, animals, machines, ...