The Monolith
I love how this building looks like something out of a SciFi movie. I took this picture with my BlackBerry from the Al-Khalijieh building. I made it black and white just for added dramatic effect.
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Jun 16, 2009
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1. lilioukalani | June 17th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Follows the ideals of frank lloyd wright. a skyscraper has to free from any surrounding elements in order to appreciate its true presence.
2. DaLLy | June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Look likes il7amra tower ! ( still under construction ).
3. moose | June 17th, 2009 at 12:28 am
its shooped
4. Mohammed | June 17th, 2009 at 12:29 am
amazing!! looks like a spielberg’s movie
5. eleventh.st | June 17th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Great picture!
6. Na9er | June 17th, 2009 at 12:35 am
This is actually the Kuwait Trade Center, which can be seen here:
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=kuwaittradecenter-kuwaitcity-kuwait
7. Ba3ks | June 17th, 2009 at 12:50 am
You Should see AlHamra its gonna be the tallest building in the world that is made or concrete and not antennas and its gonna have to first chinese CAFE in kuwait on the top floor;p
8. Ba3ks | June 17th, 2009 at 12:50 am
With its own Zen Garden too (Chinese Garden)
9. M | June 17th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Love it !
10. BoBader | June 17th, 2009 at 4:56 am
It’s nice but too bad it was copied from Calatrava’s Turning Torso
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/calatrava/torso2/torso2.html
11. Abdullah N | June 17th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Love it!
12. Mathai | June 17th, 2009 at 6:14 am
I think its already sent a beacon to Jupiter :P
13. Shoxin | June 17th, 2009 at 7:05 am
I wouldn’t necessarily say it was copied from the Turning Torso, it may have been influenced by it.
Either way that building looks pretty sweet in that picture… Think it could be better if we could actually see it’s shadow covering surrounding buildings/structures.
14. Ramez | June 17th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Perfect shot dude, but the problem that they are building towers between those old buildings and behind that tower especially there are a lot of car repair shops area.
planning is very important
15. Daddy's Girl | June 17th, 2009 at 8:14 am
It’s amazing
Every time i pass by i wonder how on earth did they build the turns and twists so precisely masha2 allah…
im so glad i am not a construction engineer!!!!
16. mb | June 17th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Mark can you make a wallpaper sized one please?
17. Rashisha | June 17th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Its an Amazing shot!
18. Ahmed | June 17th, 2009 at 9:31 am
looks like an alien HQ building
19. kyx | June 17th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Great shot Mark… it looks scary actually; something like doomsday has arrived.
20. Deema | June 17th, 2009 at 9:43 am
do you think it will host virtual transportation?
21. cajie | June 17th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Am I the only one who thinks it looks like someone is giving the finger?
22. Mark | June 17th, 2009 at 9:47 am
mb: Its really bad quality since it was shot with my BlackBerry
23. Frankom | June 17th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Nice picture ! i like it
24. mike | June 17th, 2009 at 10:33 am
one word looks like the stealth bomber…
25. Bu Yousef | June 17th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Great photo from a rubbish camera… Nice one Mark.
26. jayson | June 17th, 2009 at 10:42 am
@ cajie… lol!
man, you need a break.. :)
27. vampire | June 17th, 2009 at 10:44 am
u r genius
28. FaDy | June 17th, 2009 at 10:45 am
amazing!!!!
looks like the head of a character from the stargate movie,, the eagle/snake or whatever it is face.
29. Jan | June 17th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Blackberry is gay
30. TRIXTER | June 17th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
This is not ALHMARA TOWER
its a tower next to ALMULLA CAR Agency
31. wi-fi | June 17th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
nice shot
32. Abdullah | June 17th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Mark this looks like the Japanese 1-D big dinosaur, crushing everything out ! HAH!
I love it, its very umm ,, grand ! you know ?
33. Ansam | June 17th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Is it called the Monolith? or did you call it that?!
Nice name for it!
34. ohyeah | June 17th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
i like this building too….it looks very cool….all glass and twisted …lovely….they should call it SKY DRILLER…. sa7
35. psytrance | June 17th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
i wonder if they took the design from the dead space game ,it looks exactly the same as the artifact
36. ..... | June 17th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
wow, its a rly good pic, what happend to the cobra towers though? i thought this would be the first part of tht building, it looked amzing in the plan.
37. ali | June 17th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Honestly you gave an ugly building a face lift. They should pain the glass.
38. punky | June 18th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
If you build it they will come…
39. nudorp | June 18th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
What really puzzles me is how the windows get cleaned?
40. Realist | June 18th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Space Odyssey 2001…been there since the beggining of time.
41. Architect | June 19th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Ok.
I will answer all your questions as I was the one.
The real suggested tower’s name was SG (bigger force liked KTC) as there are 250sqm indoor garden on every 6 floors. this tower is the only commercial mall with infinity pool on its mall roof (not the tower). you can swim and see your house. Amazing floor span with no columns on corners (when you stand at the corner the closest column to you is 12m away).
No Parking, The poor guys (u know who) are going to clean the glass.
good luck
42. Moey | June 21st, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Leo Burnett or Qualitynet? :P
43. Jassim | June 26th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I never liked that Tiara on top of the building, hated it. From the angle u got it and the B&W, i like it now.
44. Desert Girl | June 30th, 2009 at 11:46 am
I saw it last night in a sandstorm and it looked like a scene from a furistic apocolyptic movie. I love that building. Awesome.
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