General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Office building |
|---|---|
| Material: |
Concrete structure |
| Architectural style: |
Deconstructivist |
Location
| Location: |
Kuwait City, Kuwait |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: | 29° 22' 44.91" N 47° 59' 35.44" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | 412.00 m | |
| number of floors (above ground) | 80 |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Al Hamra Tower is a skyscraper in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is the tallest building in Kuwait.
Profile
Construction of the skyscraper started in 2005. It was completed in 2011. Designed by architectural firms Skidmore, Owings, Merrill and Ramshir and Callison, it is the tallest carved concrete skyscraper in the world, and the thirtieth tallest building in the world at 414 m (1,358 ft).
The building utilizes wrapped glass facades 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 magazine.
Awards
- 2011: Emporis Skyscraper Award
- 2010: Cityscape • Commercial / Mixed Use Built
- 2008: Chicago Athenaeum - American Architecture Award
- 2008: Chicago Athenaeum - International Architecture Award for best new global design
- 2008: MIPIM/Architectural Review - MIPIM Future Project Award: Overall
- 2008: MIPIM/Architectural Review - MIPIM Future Project Award: Tall Buildings
- 2007: Miami Architectural Bienal - Bronze Unbuilt Project
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Al Hamra Tower" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2008): Sculpted High-Rise: the Al Hamra Tower. Presented at: 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008, pp. 482-483.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20071106 - Published on:
14/04/2016 - Last updated on:
15/04/2016
