The one-eyed man is not King

In amongst all the cranes and cement factories, Qatar is to be commended for giving over space in the bustling West Bay area to non-profit project. The Al Noor Institute for the Blind is building a stunning new facility for the visually impaired.
The interior design of the building sounds first class: textured floors to help students get their bearings, sound effects, stairs with touch markings, high contrast walls to help those with low vision. It is a credit to city in a hurry that it finds space for a non-commercial building in between the new banks, office blocks and designer apartments.
A pity, then, that the building’s exterior sounds so tactless. Someone clearly believed that a building for the visually impaired should be in the shape of an eye – an Eye-Shaped building’, says The Peninsula. Perhaps the new center for spine injuries should be two towers designed to look like legs. Or a burns unit in the shape of a flame. Or maybe the designers thought no one would notice.