A friend just emailed me the following:
Thought you might be interested to know that I just left Symphony building and there are HUGE pannels of glass flying off the building, cause by the wind, and crashing into the parking lot. I tried to take a closer look but the whole area has been closed off and the fire department is on their way. From what I saw though one car got hit and is quite badly damaged and there were 3 other large peices of broken glass laying in various places in the parking lot
As usual if anyone has pictures email me them so I could post them here.
Thanks Ali
Update: Here is a picture of the damaged car sent in by a reader called Abdul Hameed. According to him this happened a couple of months back as well and that time the glass window landed on his friends car.
17 replies on “Flying Glass”
Thats pretty carzy! There is a car pile up in shuweikh! So someone hit someone and its ridiculous! I wouldn’t stop in this weather! lol
Of course, cheap contractors, always trying to cut corners.
I hope they dont build nuclear reactors here, imagine how many corners they will cut to shave off some millions from the billion dollar price tag.
Poor Audi 🙁
now symphony mall will sue u
lol i swear i didn’t cause the wind!
I don’t get it? how exactly are the huge panels of glass flying off Symphony?
Are they literally being ripped off their location?
What if we were inside? Would we be falling off through the gaping holes where glass used to be!?
never before have i heard of panels of glass flying off a newly constructed building!
Happened a few years back in Kuwait City
Also happened before in Kuwait University, Shuwaikh, Social Studies.
What’s sad about symphony though, they spent a lot on the project!it shouldn’t even be NEAR this kind of quality , this will cause some serious issues for the owners, and the hotel brand as well. Imagine a high profile person spend the night overthere, which is very likely since the hotel is famous for its luxuarious rooms and feel, and something like that happens? They’ll be facing a big lawsuit and A huge bad publicity.
FYI Kuwait has the strongest winds in the entire region which at about 100m reach speeds of up to 100-120kph… couple that with the heat, the humidity around that area of Salmiya and the fact that the wind effect cuts directly through the adjacent buildings and it becomes pretty much impossible to predict what kind of construct would be able to handle the requirements. Especially since in Kuwait we dont have proper readings of all these factors.
Its a mistake, they happen. Deal with it.
That’s our car. Just my luck, an empty lot and only mine gets hit.
that really sucks dude
You should have seen what happened to my new car in the last storm (which we got NO warning for).. it was the ONLY car in the whole lot that got damaged. I just bought it a month ago :'(
The whole roof got destroyed and its a convertable. sucks big time!
where did that happen? do u have pics?
Ras Salmiya, just infront of pearl marzouq
building. There was actually another car
that got totally destroyed but they dont live around that are. I do! I’ll send them to you now
Mark..Please share the pic 4 us
Flying sheet of glass = Flying guillotine..I’m sure guests and visitors would lose their heads over this !
LOL this proves my theory that older buildings in kuwait are MUCH better constructed than newer flimsy buildings. You never hear this happening to a building that was finished only 5 or 10 years ago.