site visit

the halls of the shooting club under construction



this is the outline of the site we worked on, a piece of desert of 100.000 sqm situated along the sixth ringroad. a sjeikh, currently building a giant shooting club on the spot, wishes to develop his remaining property through a BOT deal (build operate transfer). the selected developer will build a project, operate it for 30 years and then transfer the site with the buildings to the landlord sjeikh.
we put together a proposal for a hotel, a shopping mall and a convention center as the villa moda submission.



a little north of our site there's a 'bedouin suburban neighborhood' under construction. hundreds of massive houses going up simultaneously for middle class kuwaitis. pretty impressive...







the sixth ringroad continues as the highway to basra in iraq, and was bombed into the infamous 'highway to hell' during the iraqi pullout in '91.




cemetery of cars wrecked by the iraqis


the burning oil wells