The Qatar government retained The Georgetown Design Group with Mokhless Al-Hariri as the lead-architect to fully renovate the building. The first phase of work consisted of the due-diligence evaluation of the 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m2) building. The second phase comprised the fast-track development of the project's programmatic requirements as well as the accelerated space planning and integrated architectural and engineering design services required by the complete gutting and full renovation of the building.