

Date:
2014
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Date:
2014Location:
Al Salmiya, KuwaitClient:
Soud Sahood Al-MetiryArea:
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1818 Salmiya Hotel
This 18-story mixed-use tower is a bold architectural statement, combining fluid forms with dynamic spatial relationships. The architecture uses curved steel strip elements to produce a robust visual identity and harmoniously integrate with the landscape through layered horizontal planes and overlapping concrete platforms. The tower itself boasts 80 fashionably crafted hotel rooms, a restaurant complete with a swimming pool and outdoor sitting areas, and a multi-story shopping mall topped with a center plaza of waterfall fountains. The raised spaces’ interactions of open areas are balanced in the creation of a harmonious structure and environment, giving birth to new standards for current hospitality and commercial architecture.