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Kuwait Building News: Architecure Designs

Kuwaiti Architecture Designs – chronological list

post updated 7 November 2026

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Kuwait Architecture News in 2026

5 November 2026
Round House Messilah Luxury Property
Design: Balzar Architects, Valencia

render : Visualisations, © Balzar Architects

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Kuwait Building News in 2025

Kuwait Architectural News in 2025 & 2024

21 July 2025
Cleft House, Abdullah Al-Salem, Kuwait luxury home
Design: TAEP/AAP

photo : Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

12 January 2025
White Fortress, Al Khiran luxury home
Architecture: TAEP/AAP

photo : Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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Kuwait Architecture News 2023 to 2024

Gulf architectural photographs, modern built environment pictures. New architecture design images in 2024:

7 June 2024
Yal Living, Messilah, Kuwait home
Design: AGi architects

photo : Nelson Garrido

20 May 2024
Twin House, Abdullah Al Salem, Kuwait home
Design: AlHumaidhi Architects

photo : Nelson Garrido

31 January 2024
KitKat House
Design: AlHumaidhi Architects

photo : Nelson Garrido

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Kuwait Architectural Designs in 2023

30 December 2023
Beach House in Al Ahmadi
Design: AlHumaidhi Architects

image courtesy of architecture office

23 October 2023
Pixel House
Design: AGi architects

photo : Nelson Garrido

20 October 2023
BBT Hilltop Sharq Kuwait Best Burger in Town, 141 St, Block 4, Sharq
Design: TAEP/AAP

photo : Fernando Guerra, FG + SG

29 August 2023
Coastal Tent House in Al Khiran
Design: TAEP/AAP

photo : Fernando Guerra, FG + SG

11 May 2023
Khaleejia Square
Architects: pad10 architects + designers

photo : pad10 architects + designers

10 Jan 2023
Venue V56 Golf
Architects: SHED

photo : SHED

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Kuwaiti Property Developments

Kuwait Architectural News in 2022

6 July 2022
National Bank of Kuwait Headquarters
Design: Foster + Partners, Architects

photo © Nigel Young / Foster + Partners
National Bank of Kuwait headquarters building

4 July 2022
Tamdeen Square, Mesillah, Kuwait City
Design: AGi architects

photo : Mohammad Taqi Ashkananis
Tamdeen Square – Mesillah Housing

2 June 2022
Wafra Wind Tower by AGi architects, among the 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Design: AGi architects

photo from AGi architects
Wafra Wind Tower by AGi architects

9 May 2022
Pearl-Marzouq Complex
Design: pad10 architects + designers

photo : pad10 architects + designers
Pearl-Marzouq Complex

More Kuwait Architectural News on e-architect soon.

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Kuwait Architecture News 2021

14 Dec 2021
From Mud – Artist Studio
Design: Rawan Muqaddas

photo : Mohammed Taqi Ashkanani
From Mud, Kuwait City Artist Studio Design

25 Nov 2021
Wafra Living, high-rise private residences
Design: AGi architects

photo : Mohammad Taqi Ashkanani
Wafra Living Jabriya Residential Building

6 Aug 2021
DUNAS Desert Hotel
Architects: Jasper Architects

image © Jasper Architects
DUNAS Desert Hotel

More contemporary Kuwait Building News on e-architect soon.

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Kuwaiti Architecture Updates 2020

2 Jun 2020
Shift Lagree Studio

27 Jan 2020
Three Gardens House
Design: AGi architects

Photograph : Fernando Guerra FG+SG

17 Jan 2020
Mishref Home for Two Brothers in Kuwait City

7 Jan 2020
Tru3 Yoga Studio Ras Salmiyah

More new Kuwait Building News on e-architect soon.

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Kuwait Building News 2019

21 Oct 2019
Wafra Tower, Hessa Al Mubarak District
Architects: OMA and Pace

image courtesy of OMA
Wafra Tower

5 Oct 2019
Invisible Kuwait Lecture
Rafael S. Portillo is to give a lecture about his work “Invisible Kuwait” for a RIBA symposium in Kuwait, on October 14.

The event is called Happiness in the City: Redesigning Urban Living and takes place at the Regency Hotel in Salmiya.
More information can be found here: www.artificialkreativity.com
Rafael S. Portillo is participating along with KFAS, Kuwait University College of Architecture, PACE, RIBA, OMA, and 12 other speakers during this day long event.
Tickets and event information can be found here: http://www.pace-me.com/happycities

More modern Kuwait Building News online here soon.

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Kuwait Building News 2018

10 Oct 2018
New Home in Abdulla Al Salem
Design: AGi architects

photography : Nelson Garrido

30 Jun 2018
Wind Tower Salmiya Shortlisted at World Architecture Festival 2018 Awards

Wind Tower in Salmiya is one of 536 shortlisted entries across 81 countries:

World Architecture Festival Awards 2018 Shortlist

12 Mar 2018
Areia Homes, Sabah Alahmed Alsabah Maritime City, Al Khiran, southern Kuwait
Design: AAP Associated Architects Partnership

photography : João Morgado
New Homes in Al Khiran

13 Feb 2018
Nirvana Home, Mesillah, south east Kuwait
Design: AGi architects

photography : Fernando Guerra FG+SG
New Home in Mesillah

10 Feb 2018
Al Hamra Tower Building Photos

photograph © Adrian Welch, architect
Al Hamra Tower and NBK Tower

5th International Green Roof Congress, Al Shaheed Park, Kuwait City
17th and 18th February 2018
This event will focus on successful solutions for sustainable urban development.

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Kuwait Building News 2017

28 Nov + 29 Jul 2017
Wind Tower Salmiya, Kuwait City
Design: AGi architects

image courtesy of architects
Wind Tower Salmiya

30 Nov 2017
Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre Building, Arabian Gulf Street, Salmiya, Kuwait City
Architects: SSH

photography : SSH
Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre Building

30 Oct 2017
Mise-en-Scene
Architects: Designlab Experience

photo : Roberto Conte
Mise-en-Scene Kuwait

13 Aug 2017
Crystal Tower, Kuwait City
Design: HOK, Architects

This 52-storey building features a “delicate balance of sharp, angular forms of glass and metal”, according to the architects, rises from the city skyline in the Al Sharq district of Kuwait City.

This is one of the most interesting new skyscrapers in the city, mainly due to the unusual open-air sky atrium at mid-tower height. The effect is mesmerizing, a slender skyscraper with a huge hole in its middle! The only similar building I can think of is Arquitectonica’s famous Miami apartment block, but the proportions here are very different.

“The design contrasts with the solidity and sweeping contours of the HOK-designed InterContinental Mixed-Use Tower several blocks away. Composed of sloped glass and metal panel curtain wall, the tower features elegant, slender proportions and a compact floor plate.”

The Crystal Tower building includes 45 stories of office space, with a multi-level stone and glass podium at the ground level housing a three-story entrance atrium, retail spaces, building services and two levels of underground parking.

A 20-m-tall steel truss spire atop the tower emphasizes the building’s dynamic asymmetrical composition.

22 May 2017
Kuwait University, Central Administration Facilities, Shadadiyah
Design: SOM / Pace

image courtesy of Pace
Kuwait University, Central Administration Facilities

19 Apr 2017
Central Bank of Kuwait Building
Dates built: 2005-17
Design: HOK (London) with Pace (Kuwait)

This 240m-high building has become a new landmark on Kuwait City’s skyline, acting as a symbol of the country’s significant economic power and contribution to the region.

photo © Adrian Welch

Central Bank of Kuwait Building

10 Mar 2017
Al- Sawaber Complex Demolition News

Inner City Megastructure by Canadian architect and urban planner Arthur Erickson

Final warning to Sawaber residents in Modernist Housing Complex

photos © Adrian Welch

The State property department announced that Al- Sawaber complex must be evacuated starting next week under the administrative evacuation law, reports the Friday Times today.

State property department gave residents of 15 flats, whose owners are refusing to hand over three days to process transactions related to reclaiming and receive their financial dues.

For years, the government has sought means of emptying the complex of residents in order to have it demolished.

The Cabinet issued a decree for the removal of all remaining residents by March 31, 2016.

Built in 1981 with designs by famed Canadian architect and urban planner Arthur Erickson, Al-Sawaber represents a distinct architectural, economic and cultural period in Kuwaiti history.

The residential building complex is one of the first high density complexes in the country.

The low-cost homes are located on approximately 245,000 square meters of prime real estate property in the heart of Kuwait’s financial district.

The complex includes 33 buildings and over 520 residential apartments.

Arthur Erickson designed many large concrete buildings. For me the one that stands out as a megastructure is his University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.

Megastructures were popular building types in the 1960s and 1970s. On e-architect we have posts on buildings in Cumbernauld (Scotland), Beer Sheba (Israel) and Hulme, Manchester (England).

Le Corbusier designed a number of megastructures in Marseille, Berlin and Paris.

Arthur Erickson Architect

source: http://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/final-warning-sawaber-residents/

Another major building designed by Arthur Erickson in the Middle East is the Etisalat Tower, Baniyas Road, Dubai, UAE (1986), the so-called ‘golf ball tower’.

Another major 20th Century building in the city centre:

The Kuwait National Assembly Building, designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon in 1972:

10 Mar 2017
Kuwait International Airport Building News
Design: Foster + Partners

image : Foster + Partners
Kuwait International Airport
A project to build a new terminal in Kuwait International Airport will now be completed in four years.

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Kuwait Building News Archive

Kuwait Architecture Photos

Kuwait Skyscraper Building Photos

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center

National Bank of Kuwait Tower

Al Hamra Tower

Kipco Tower Building

Al Tijaria Tower

Al Shaheed Park in the evening, with Al Tijaria Tower beyond:

Al Shaheed Park in Kuwait

Kuwait City skyscraper buildings:

Kuwait Skyscarper Building Photos

Kuwait Towers

Nogra Complex – Hawally shopping centre interior:

Modern building in Hawally:

Building on Oman Street:

Elegant pared down styling at Kuwait police office building on Soor Street:

Modernist building in Hawally:

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center Kuwait: JACC News

6 Feb 2017
KUNA report that Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD)’s teams have put out the fire that broke out earlier in Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center in Kuwait city on Monday, without human losses or injuries. Five departments of the directorate took part in controlling the blaze at JACC that caused only material damage in the area.