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.
Jun 16, 2009
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Follows the ideals of frank lloyd wright. a skyscraper has to free from any surrounding elements in order to appreciate its true presence.
Look likes il7amra tower ! ( still under construction ).
its shooped
amazing!! looks like a spielberg’s movie
Great picture!
This is actually the Kuwait Trade Center, which can be seen here:
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=kuwaittradecenter-kuwaitcity-kuwait
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
With its own Zen Garden too (Chinese Garden)
Love it !
It’s nice but too bad it was copied from Calatrava’s Turning Torso
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/calatrava/torso2/torso2.html
Love it!
I think its already sent a beacon to Jupiter :P
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.
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
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!!!!
Mark can you make a wallpaper sized one please?
Its an Amazing shot!
looks like an alien HQ building
Great shot Mark… it looks scary actually; something like doomsday has arrived.
do you think it will host virtual transportation?
Am I the only one who thinks it looks like someone is giving the finger?
mb: Its really bad quality since it was shot with my BlackBerry
Nice picture ! i like it
one word looks like the stealth bomber…
Great photo from a rubbish camera… Nice one Mark.
@ cajie… lol!
man, you need a break.. :)
u r genius
amazing!!!!
looks like the head of a character from the stargate movie,, the eagle/snake or whatever it is face.
Blackberry is gay
This is not ALHMARA TOWER
its a tower next to ALMULLA CAR Agency
nice shot
Mark this looks like the Japanese 1-D big dinosaur, crushing everything out ! HAH!
I love it, its very umm ,, grand ! you know ?
Is it called the Monolith? or did you call it that?!
Nice name for it!
i like this building too….it looks very cool….all glass and twisted …lovely….they should call it SKY DRILLER…. sa7
i wonder if they took the design from the dead space game ,it looks exactly the same as the artifact
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.
Honestly you gave an ugly building a face lift. They should pain the glass.
If you build it they will come…
What really puzzles me is how the windows get cleaned?
Space Odyssey 2001…been there since the beggining of time.
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
Leo Burnett or Qualitynet? :P
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.
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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