The highly sought-after commission to design the official Qatari Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia has been granted to rising Paris-based Lebanese star Lina Ghotmeh. The 2023 Serpentine Pavilion designer and recently announced British Museum Western Range galleries expansion will be given the chance to deliver what is just the third permanent national pavilion in fifty years in the Giardini on the strength of her proposal's clarity and responsiveness to site context. She beat eight other shortlisted competitors in doing so. Rem Koolhaas served as the competition's Advisory Panel chair. Ghotmeh is also the architect of Bahrain's National Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025.