Interesting fact, did you know that the Kuwait National Assembly was designed by the internationally known architect of the Sydney Opera House, Jørn Utzon? Jørn Utzon sadly passed away late last month on November 29th at the age of 90.
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Mark and Nat, a married couple who are living in Kuwait. Mark is a creative director at an ad agency while Nat runs her own design studio called Push+Pull.
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Beautiful building that is most of the time empty and devoid of any real political activity other then constant threats to grill over the silliest actions.
I hope a good government finally steps in after the several years of fiascos happened. But then again those were elected officials. Kuwait gets the government it deserves.
Mark,
Its Sydney, not SIDNEY ;)
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Very well designed building and well presenting the Greek taste i think :)
humm… man wearing only white towels and having a bird net on his head :P
Haa!! that Chabra. USELESS
yep
http://idip.blogspot.com/2008/12/joern-utzon-rip.html
may he rest in peace, he did amazing peices of art
currently its being renovated ..
@Teeman, It’s not renovated. It’s actually being extended.
old news
i heard that before…..
And it makes me proud to be danish….=)
horrible camera work, idot on a camera.
The old days we had internationally renowned architects, designers, and talented folk in general developing our infrastructure.
Now we have…uhm…..
hilaliya. now you have Egyptian farmers, Bangladeshi thieves…
armani exchanger: “man wearing only white towels and having a bird net on his head :P”
what???
this is comedy gold
Wow how interesting. I never knew this until TODAY ;)
it is quite a fantastic building! and i know ina the kuwait towers were designed by a scandinavian architect. well, i think he was scandinavian.
She .. She was Scandinavian.
those idiots deserve a mere “chabra”
This is old news. Mark, you’re losing your edge.
This isn’t news, its an interesting fact.
its an OLD fact
hope you bare with me :D as much as u have the right to comment i do too :D
OK, how could a simple piece of information be so controversial ?
lighten up people, its a small post about who designed our National Assembly, every one has the right to their opinion and to rant as long as they respect the other :)
so who said its an old fact for them its still new to the post editor and me too i knew it recently! nothing wrong with knowledge :D
as for those who rant about who are in the National Assembly or who are in Kuwait in their eyes, don’t its not worth it :} the post is far simpler than this
its a post about who built a thing :) that is it… we don’t have to make it complex :D blogging is not!
that was the last thing far3on had learned before his terrible passing
Yup and he did a bad job at it. Apparently, Utzon didn’t get to see the Sydney Opera House for 50 years because he was kicked out for cost overruns of more than 1000%. Guess where he headed next ?
I can’t believe Mark is still being harassed about his posts!
People get this, IT IS HIS OWN BLOG!!! He has the right to publish whatever he feels like.
Keep up the good work mark! You really set up an example for a great blog about Kuwait.
i second Q80-ChillGirl ; )
and @ 7 .. if u and i knew this fact it doesn’t mean that every one out there knows it !!
and the blog owner has all the right to blog abt what ever he wants let it be old or new , facts or news ..
so take a chill pill and relax dude : )
@pure i already took a couple today thanx for the tip :)
wooow interesting
i love the design of that building
thanx mark :)
Cool fact! Though the background music is kinda sarcastic. Sloppy camera job, nevertheless, thanks for the effort.
We have many buildings built by internationally known firms such as Chamber of Commerce, Alhamra Tower (under construction), and Hilton Resort were designed by SOM (Designers of the Sears Tower, Burj Dubai, Hancock Center, and many other).
I.M. Pei, designer of the Pyramide du Louvre in Paris, also designed the residential towers next to Safir Hotel in Bnied Elqar back in the 70s.
which residential towers? Masaref?
Those http://www.panoramio.com/photo/55816
I was told this by three British architects from HOK who I met in Safir International few years back. I asked the owner of the firm I worked for and he confirmed it.
yup those are the masaref buildings. they used to be the most expensive apartments in kuwait.
they must have been constructed back in the 80s cuz they look ugly good job with the blog mark keep it up