Comments on: The new Center for Knowledge and Culture in Saudi Arabia http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/ Mark and Nat, a married couple who are living in Kuwait. Both are designers, Mark works in advertising while Nat runs her own design studio called Push+Pull. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:18:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: uturn http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440783 uturn Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:09:33 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440783 You are mocking a society for making a progressive move of proposing a center for knowledge and culture !! What a bunch of retards ... You are mocking a society for making a progressive move of proposing a center for knowledge and culture !!

What a bunch of retards …

]]> By: crocko rock http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440741 crocko rock Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:11:40 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440741 Hahaha....BZ What's to be jealous of? The public stonings? The fact that women are treated like dogs? The muttawa whipping you in public? The fact that you're segregated at birth? You live in hell. It's you who should be jealous of the rest of the world. Hahaha….BZ

What’s to be jealous of?

The public stonings? The fact that women are treated like dogs? The muttawa whipping you in public? The fact that you’re segregated at birth?

You live in hell. It’s you who should be jealous of the rest of the world.

]]> By: BZ http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440735 BZ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:21:12 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440735 Are you all jealous of Saudi? I bet all you haters are either 3ayam or from Iraqi roots.. Get a life... And don't forget what Saudi did in 1990. Show a little bit of appreciation and respect Are you all jealous of Saudi?

I bet all you haters are either 3ayam or from Iraqi roots..

Get a life… And don’t forget what Saudi did in 1990.

Show a little bit of appreciation and respect

]]> By: Bo-Bader http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440701 Bo-Bader Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:35:14 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440701 The design, supposed to be desert stones, was probably to remind saudis of their practice of stoning women to death!! Seriously though, it looks futuristic and everything but it does not fit the culture. The design contradict itself. Stones, culture, knowledge.... stone age!! It is funny that westerners think about our culture by either palm trees or something completely irrelevant such as stones and sheesh kababs (Kuwait Towers). The design, supposed to be desert stones, was probably to remind saudis of their practice of stoning women to death!! Seriously though, it looks futuristic and everything but it does not fit the culture. The design contradict itself. Stones, culture, knowledge…. stone age!! It is funny that westerners think about our culture by either palm trees or something completely irrelevant such as stones and sheesh kababs (Kuwait Towers).

]]> By: Toad http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440686 Toad Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:14:11 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440686 haha culture and knowledge oh the irony if only it was in kuwait...now that would make more sense haha culture and knowledge
oh the irony
if only it was in kuwait…now that would make more sense

]]> By: crocko rock http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440685 crocko rock Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:46:36 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440685 Hahaha.... Knowledge and Culture? So what, so you'll get a guided tour of how people are still stoned to death, whipped in the streets, given no rights, segregated at birth, taught that everything in life is 7aram? Wonderful Hahaha…. Knowledge and Culture?

So what, so you’ll get a guided tour of how people are still stoned to death, whipped in the streets, given no rights, segregated at birth, taught that everything in life is 7aram?

Wonderful

]]> By: Sunny http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440672 Sunny Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:03:07 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440672 Check this one out. http://www.break.com/index/dynamic-architecture-in-dubai.html Imagine havin a penthouse in one of these babies Check this one out. http://www.break.com/index/dynamic-architecture-in-dubai.html
Imagine havin a penthouse in one of these babies

]]> By: Komsomol http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440671 Komsomol Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:58:16 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440671 Reminds me of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HalfLife2_Citadel.jpg" rel="nofollow">Combine Citadel</a> from Half Life 2. Honestly I don't see how this represents Saudi culture in anyway, was a traditional approach deemed too boring? Reminds me of the Combine Citadel from Half Life 2.

Honestly I don’t see how this represents Saudi culture in anyway, was a traditional approach deemed too boring?

]]> By: guessed http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440668 guessed Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:11:09 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440668 Building for "Center of Knowledge and Culture" in Saudi. Will that be built before the building for the "Institute for Fair and Free Elections" in Zimbabwe? Building for “Center of Knowledge and Culture” in Saudi.

Will that be built before the building for the “Institute for Fair and Free Elections” in Zimbabwe?

]]> By: Musa'ad Haider http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440667 Musa'ad Haider Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:20:42 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440667 The center of culture in a building that represents no culture in the world but pluto nash! Thats intelligent. The center of culture in a building that represents no culture in the world but pluto nash! Thats intelligent.

]]> By: A E R O http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440663 A E R O Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:53:12 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440663 Riiiight... knowledge & culture in Saudi hum? Who are they trying to kid? Riiiight… knowledge & culture in Saudi hum? Who are they trying to kid?

]]> By: TanGo http://www.248am.com/mark/design/the-new-center-for-knowledge-and-culture-in-saudi-arabia/#comment-440662 TanGo Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:53:40 +0000 http://www.248am.com/?p=4785#comment-440662 at first glance i thought it's a Zaha Hadid design at first glance i thought it’s a Zaha Hadid design

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