Tag Kuwait

02-08-2022

AGi architects Wafra Wind Tower, new types of urban residences in Kuwait

The Wafra Wind Tower project by AGi architects has been shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022. The 13-storey building has been designed as a wind tower. It is traversed by a vertical central courtyard that provides natural ventilation to all housing units, and represents a reinterpretation of typical Kuwaiti urban residential typologies.

13-07-2018

Four homes: how dwelling is changing all over the world

How do people on the other side of the world live? What do their homes look like, and how are their everyday living routines changing? Floornature takes a look at how people live in four recent homes, one in Kuwait, one in Switzerland, one in Australia and one in Mexico.

23-02-2018

AGi Architects: Wafra Vertical Housing, wind tower in Salmiya

In their plans for Wafra Vertical Housing, AGi Architects reflect on socio-economic change in Kuwait cities, drawing their inspiration from ancient Persian wind towers.

01-11-2017

Sebastião Salgado exhibition: Kuwait. Un deserto in fiamme

On 20th October photography fans and journalists packed the Meravigli Gallery in Milan to take part in a public event with Sebastião Salgado at the opening of the exhibition ‘Kuwait. Un deserto in fiamme’ (Kuwait. A Desert in Flames), curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado.

13-07-2016

AGi Architects’ wall house in Khaldiya (Kuwait City)

AGi Architects designed the Wall House in Kuwait City to involve all the senses, not only the eyes. The Khaldiya district is outside the high walls of the Wall House, and AGi Architects are forced to look upwards toward the sky.