The Al Hamra Firduos Tower is a
skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...
in
Kuwait City
Kuwait City ( ar, مدينة الكويت) is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. Located at the heart of the country on the south shore of Kuwait Bay on the Persian Gulf, it is the political, cultural and economical centre of the emirate, ...
,
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
. It is the
tallest building in Kuwait
This list of tallest buildings in Kuwait ranks skyscrapers in Kuwait by height. The tallest building in Kuwait is currently the 80–story Al Hamra Tower, which rises and was completed in 2011, it is also the world's fifteenth-tallest building ...
. Construction of the skyscraper started in 2005.
It was completed in 2011.
Designed by architectural firms
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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and Ramshir and
Callison, it is the tallest curved concrete skyscraper in the world, and the thirty-sixth
tallest building in the world
This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least . Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list (for these, see ''List of tallest buildings and structur ...
at .
Profile
The building utilizes wrapped glass on the east, north, and west both for aesthetics and to reduce the amount of reflective surface area on the south facade, which also features brushed Jura limestone. Flared walls reaching from the southwest and southeast corners of the core span the entire height of the tower, and there is a column-free 24-meter-tall lobby
The landscape was designed by
Francis Landscapes.
The tower was included in the list of the best inventions of 2011 by ''
Time
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'' magazine.
Awards
*2011:
Emporis Skyscraper Award
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The award was presented annually by Emporis, a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany ...
*2010: Cityscape • Commercial / Mixed Use Built
*2008:
Chicago Athenaeum
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- American Architecture Award
*2008: Chicago Athenaeum - International Architecture Award for best new global design
*2008:
MIPIM
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/''
Architectural Review
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'' - MIPIM Future Project Award: Overall
*2008: MIPIM/Architectural Review - MIPIM Future Project Award: Tall Buildings
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*2007: ]Miami Architectural Bienal
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- Bronze Unbuilt Project
See also
* List of tallest buildings in Kuwait
This list of tallest buildings in Kuwait ranks skyscrapers in Kuwait by height. The tallest building in Kuwait is currently the 80–story Al Hamra Tower, which rises and was completed in 2011, it is also the world's fifteenth-tallest building. ...
* Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Tower
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Tower is a skyscraper in the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It was completed in 2006 and hosts the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. It has a height of and has 40 floors.
See also
*List ...
in Abu Dhabi, another skyscraper with a fold-like exterior
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