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I can’t believe this place is planning to open down the street from my apartment building in Salmiya. This is the mall that’s replacing the old building that had Family Bookshop, Alamiah and Waleed Toys. [YouTube]

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65 replies on “Sahoud Mall”

I have not visited Salmiya for a while. Suffice to say, I was extremely disheartened when I discovered that all the buildings on one side of old Salmiya had been razed to the ground. Anyone who grew up in Kuwait knows that area as old Salmiya, and the other area is Salmiya Highstreet. I feel a part of me has died along with those buildings. Waleed Toys is where I brought my birthday gifts from. Tikka is where I had dinner with my family.

Some things should be preserved as they are, however, you cannot stand in the way of progress. All we can is remember what was and lament on what is to come.

However, if this is progress, then someone needs to do something about the silly street that runs down the middle, no way can it handle any traffic once those malls are built. One on each side. And if u extend that street to connect with the 4th Ring Road you sort of killed all the shops on opposite sides of the street near Burger King.

Much needs to be done, and change has only begun.

Seems like a proposal, an ugly one at that. Looks so out of place especially in Kuwait, heck, it won’t even fit in Vegas. Cleaning it after a sand storm would be a huge challenge and it’s not going to age gracefully.

Would be cool to see it in the next final fantasy game though.

It appears to me that this project would fare better in the desert. I am confused why the government insists on holding so much land in the desert that could be developed more. Although it is proposed that a metro will be built to enter this area to support this project, I can’t see this project functioning without proper road development or the proposed metro project. Kuwait has delayed the development process for so many years, that anything seems like a miracle.

Alwhatever, land in kuwait is owned by KOC in a way. they do their studies such as seismic and geological tests, if no oil is found down there, then the land will be available for goverment to use.

guys correct me if i’m missing something.

they need to fix the roads first – feels like your driving in a war torn nation not an oil producing nation

Looks like someone was on LSD when they designed this, notice the show nothing of the inside because the entire design does not seem practical…like those tubes running across the whole mall?!

Is this for real…? well if yes then they are surely murdering the place’s richnes and the history that it has stored for the masses since ages.
No wonder it is quite true that when it comes to drawing future on paper, one draws such disturbing images that when on site, it looks as a piece of UFO. Strange how the government can allow such projects in the centre of urbanity.
[Peace]

Looks like it was inspired by a vacuum cleaner, old salmiya was more family oriented, this is going to cause chaos in the area

I don’t think the design goes well with the surroundings either

How big is the mall ? Like as big as the xcite store ? I guess the mall is gonna be smaller than a Baqala coz the rest of the design is just a giant octopus.

I am curious too.. I will be disappointed if it turns out to be something like Mohallab or Muhallab however you spell it. they should use up all the space up to “Svensons” maybe..

@Great, because Jasim in a previous posting regarding censorship of local musicians would storm the job site.

Regardless of whether its practical or the old buildings that got demolished

it Looks so futuristic & AWESOME

I think they are walking bridges, as I think I’ve seen one coming from a building that looked like car-park.

Billions of dollars surplus every year….Could create/build/invest in so many wonderful, life changing, world supporting ventures……but no……just another fancy SHOPPING MALL. Is that all people in this country can think of doing…shopping?Please….it looks ridiculous and there is no need for it….

There’s hardly anything fancy about shopping malls. Especially this one. at min 2:34 it looks like a giant snail. Was that the inspiration?

oh cool .. kuwait is getting it’s own space portal. awesome! I must say this is a perfect example of what happens when bad taste mingles with lots of moneh!

What should be for any project on that scale is invite local tenants or people living around the area for a survey on what is missing in the area and take their opinion on the aesthetics aspect of any project.

i really don’t understand all the negativity given to something we barely know anything about.

And in my opinion, anything that’s being done as a development is more than welcomed…no matter how crazy.

No Q8M, that is exactky what the problem is. By having the attititude ‘anything that’s being done as a development is more than welcomed’ it leads to projects like this being built. development needs to be thought out and planned properly. Is yet another shopping mall in Kuwait what you would call development?Think about all the other areas in this country which need developing, not the retail sector.Education for example.Development nees to be done in the right way otherwise we get tasteless, useless ideas like this one.

The guy is trying to bring something new to kuwait (wo don’t know what it is) because thats what HE can do as a form of development.

who knows, maybe one day, this insane building may be a landmark for kuwait 😛

Is this some kind of a joke cause if it is,it’s not funny.Cleaning this thing after a Sandstorm is gonna be a nightmare(If it’s ever built that is) and anyways we already have so many malls why couldn’t they invest in something better.

Mark this is what you always wanted, a new look over old Salmiya , clean, fresh, and modern. Looks like its all becoming true now
Nice (:

Don’t even get me started on this! Am having a real hard time as is imagining shifting of the epicentre of Kuwaiti socialising gravitas from Salem Mubarak Street to Al Fanar strip and back again to Salmeya High Street, in the space of a few short years.
As a child of the 80s I have grown up in this neck of the woods and long so very much for the Salem Mubarak Street of the late 70s through the 80s preceeding the occupation. Think the New Supermarket Days or Wazzan Tea House and La Patisserie days and pre the Zaina days. Back then, Salmiya(all of it) used to have a quaint European aura to it. Sadly, we see all of that being recklessly Americanised today taking in its fold anything and everything that might seem borderline classy or Parisienne. Scale seems to have trumped style and elegance cold.

so most of the building is going to be merely a “bridge” and only like 20% is the mall?
fail project, ugly design, and not needed at all, like kuwait doesnt have any malls today.

i think it looks great . can’t wait for it to be open :)be positive PPL whats up with the shit energy?!

As much as I find the design pretty exaggerated and surreal, I do salute the effort and vision put into this. This design is not easy to implement, and definitely not easy to accept. I believe there is a plan. Give they guy a break, he is one person trying to make a “developmental” change. If you don’t like his creativity, fine. At least, applaud his intention for change.

This project can best be described as our Swiss architecture professor Alexander (Allah yathkira bilkhair) used to shout at our projects in jury “This is architectural masturbation!!!”

Hello, my name is Kinsley and I go to Berwick Alternative k-8 in Columbus, Ohio. My friends and I are doing a report in my english class on the Sahoud mall and would like to know if anyone knows information about this unique sculpture to please reply back as soon as possible. The information I need is who made the structure, the amount of floors, the hieght, the width,and as much information as you know.

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