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Monday, August 27, 2018

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The Al Hamra Tower is a skyscraper in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Al Hamra is the tallest building in Kuwait and the 23rd tallest in the world.


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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 building in Kuwait, the tallest carved concrete skyscraper in the world, and the twenty-third tallest building in the world at 414 m (1,358 ft). As of January 29, 2018, it became the twenty-eighth tallest building after the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg Russia, reached the design height.

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 would be exposed to the most intense solar radiation in a region where temperatures can easily exceed 115 degrees Fahrenheit. the south facade 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 tower was included in the list of the best inventions of 2011 by TIME magazine.


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Awards

  • 2011: Emporis Skyscraper Award
  • 2010: Cityscape o 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

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External links

  • Media related to Al Hamra Tower at Wikimedia Commons
  • Al Hamra Tower Official Website
  • Al Hamra Tower on CTBUH Skyscraper Center
  • Al Hamra Tower on Emporis (General database of skyscrapers)
  • Al Hamra Tower on SkyscraperPage (Diagrams of skyscrapers)

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