A few days back I posted about the fact that the architects Foster+Partners will be designing the new Kuwait Airport terminal. Some of you had questions which I didn’t have any answers to but an architect working on the airport project at the Ministry of Public Works emailed me with some more information regarding the project. This is hot off the grill since she had just come out of a meeting with Foster+Partners, the last meeting in the design development phase.
– The new airport terminal is a completely new construction and is designed fully by Foster+Partners while Gulf Consultants are only the local sub-consultant for the project
– The completion of the design stage is scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2012 and the construction completion of the terminal and the soft opening by Mid 2016
They promised to send me renderings of the new terminal building as soon as the design phase ends but for now… below is a passenger that had just arrived to the new terminal (scale 1:5000 1:200 model) and below that is the A380 he boarded.
9 replies on “More information on the Foster+Partners new airport terminal”
I am so excited to see a foster building in Kuwait ! btw check out Queen Alia airport in Jordan Also designed by Foster & Partners, still not completed though.
As an architecture student it makes me so happy to see this advancement in Kuwait. Even though there are some hidden jewels that already exist in Kuwait like the jorn utzon’s house of parliament.
or the Masaleh complex designed by Ieoh Ming Pei!
The guy better clip his finger nails lol
What are those 2 pictures above? Scale models used in the design of the new airport? If yes, surely that A380 is too small or that man is the incredible Hulk – somehow they are not proportionate.
And btw – good luck for the court hearing today. Will you be providing live updates?
Hope it all goes well.
they could’ve at least dressed the guy in dishdasha 🙂
hi, all the best today, let us know how it goes.
[The “completion” of the design stage is scheduled to be “completed” by the end of March 2012 and the construction “completion” of the terminal and the soft opening by Mid 2016.]
This is horrible use of the English language (head spliting redundancy). Rewrite like this:
The design stage is scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2012 and the finished project to be handed over by mid 2016.
local consultant is GULF CONSULT and not GULF CONSULTANT