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The Kuwait National Assembly

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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Dec 17, 2008

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35 Comments, add your own...

  1. 1. Komsomol | December 17th, 2008 at 10:29 am

    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.

  2. 2. U2 | December 17th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    Mark,

    Its Sydney, not SIDNEY ;)

  3. 3. Mark | December 17th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    oops

  4. 4. Armani Exchanger | December 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    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

  5. 5. hamad | December 17th, 2008 at 11:25 am

    Haa!! that Chabra. USELESS

  6. 6. Q80-ChillGirl | December 17th, 2008 at 11:31 am

    yep

    http://idip.blogspot.com/2008/12/joern-utzon-rip.html

    may he rest in peace, he did amazing peices of art

  7. 7. Teeman | December 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    currently its being renovated ..

  8. 8. cajie | December 17th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    @Teeman, It’s not renovated. It’s actually being extended.

  9. 9. Tekyyak | December 17th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    old news

  10. 10. KuwaitModa | December 17th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    i heard that before…..

  11. 11. d'fined | December 17th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    And it makes me proud to be danish….=)

  12. 12. xoula | December 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    horrible camera work, idot on a camera.

  13. 13. hilaliya | December 17th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    The old days we had internationally renowned architects, designers, and talented folk in general developing our infrastructure.

    Now we have…uhm…..

  14. 14. d.jesus | December 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    hilaliya. now you have Egyptian farmers, Bangladeshi thieves…

  15. 15. Lexicon | December 17th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    armani exchanger: “man wearing only white towels and having a bird net on his head :P”

    what???

    this is comedy gold

  16. 16. holla | December 17th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    Wow how interesting. I never knew this until TODAY ;)

  17. 17. miss ghesquiere | December 17th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    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.

  18. 18. Kataku | December 17th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    She .. She was Scandinavian.

  19. 19. 7 | December 17th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    those idiots deserve a mere “chabra”

  20. 20. Nobu | December 17th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    This is old news. Mark, you’re losing your edge.

  21. 21. Mark | December 17th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    This isn’t news, its an interesting fact.

  22. 22. 7 | December 17th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    its an OLD fact

  23. 23. Q80-ChillGirl | December 17th, 2008 at 10:47 pm

    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!

  24. 24. 7 | December 17th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

    that was the last thing far3on had learned before his terrible passing

  25. 25. Realist | December 17th, 2008 at 11:37 pm

    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 ?

  26. 26. Baziz | December 17th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    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.

  27. 27. Pure | December 17th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    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 : )

  28. 28. 7 | December 18th, 2008 at 12:29 am

    @pure i already took a couple today thanx for the tip :)

  29. 29. Q8i browser | December 18th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    wooow interesting
    i love the design of that building

    thanx mark :)

  30. 30. Maha | December 18th, 2008 at 8:34 am

    Cool fact! Though the background music is kinda sarcastic. Sloppy camera job, nevertheless, thanks for the effort.

  31. 31. BoBader | December 18th, 2008 at 10:32 am

    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.

  32. 32. Mark | December 18th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    which residential towers? Masaref?

  33. 33. BoBader | December 18th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    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.

  34. 34. Mark | December 18th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    yup those are the masaref buildings. they used to be the most expensive apartments in kuwait.

  35. 35. 7 | December 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    they must have been constructed back in the 80s cuz they look ugly good job with the blog mark keep it up



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