Discovery Channel in Kuwait to film Al Hamra Tower
The documentary channel’s show, Build it Bigger, will look at projects influencing the development of engineering and architecture.
The Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed tower will have 77 storeys and reach 412m in height, making it Kuwait’s tallest building and getting it into the top-ten tallest skyscrapers in the world.
“The tower leverages the incredible gulf views to the North while blocking harsh Kuwaiti Sun from the South,” said show host Danny Forster, in a statement.
“The building is made from modern steel and glass but also from hand crafted traditional stone. As a feat of engineering it stands tall, shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the greatest towers ever built. And as a piece of Middle Eastern architecture it responds directly to place in which it’s built.”
The design has already collected a number of awards, including one at the Chicago Athenaeum and the Miami Architectural Bienal.
Al Hamra tower is on course for completion in Q4 2010.
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