Omar Badawy

Review of Kuwait Franchise

Kuwait Towers:

Kuwait Towers:
The Kuwait Towers are three towers on the Arabian Gulf coast in Kuwait City in an area called Ras Agouza, designed by the Lindstorm engineering office in Sweden and implemented by the Yugoslav Energoproject company where they were built in 1975 and officially opened on March 1 of 1979, and the height reaches The main tower to 187 meters.
It is one of the most prominent features of Kuwait and it is a symbol of contemporary renaissance and a guide to its progress and advancement.

In 1980 the towers won the Aga Khan Award for Islamic Architecture, and the committee that selected the towers explained that building these towers is an attempt to integrate modern technologies, aesthetic values, functional needs, and social services into one facility.

On December 31, 2001, the lights in the Kuwait Towers were turned off, to bid farewell to the year 2001 in which Kuwait was the capital of Arab culture.

On August 1, 2007, the athlete Ali Al-Aidan announced that he was seeking to break his previous record in riding stairs by riding the stairs in memory of the martyrs of Kuwait on August 2, and in 2006 he had climbed stairs equivalent to 45 floors, height 175 meters in four minutes and thirty seconds .

On the 14th of November 2007, the Kuwaiti Sugar Association announced that it will celebrate the occasion of the International Sugar Day by lighting the Kuwait Towers with the participation of 100 international teachers. The lights will be lit in blue.

On March 5, 2009, the Kuwait Rally 2009 was launched in front of the towers.

The idea of the constellations:
The idea of the towers had started in 1963, but they stopped, and reappeared again in 1968, and construction began in 1975 to formally open in 1979. The idea of establishing Kuwait Towers came back to Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah when she needed at that time the Ministry of Electricity and Water Building huge water tanks as an alternative to the old iron tanks.

Horoscope design:
Kuwait Towers This is the perfect place, which was designed to match its design with Kuwait's heritage features. The third, smaller sign denotes "kohl".

And it was added to cover the balls covering the number of fifty-five thousand plates, which are made of iron coated in china, in eight bright colors, in harmony with the sky and the sea.

The main tower:
Its height is 187 meters above sea level and it consists of two balls where there is a luxurious reception hall on the ground floor and the Royal Coffee Hall and there is also the external requests section and the training hall. It consists of a supreme ball, which is a revealing ball, and a full circle revolves around itself every half an hour, informing visitors of the views of Kuwait. The tower also contains two express elevators to transport visitors from the ground to the revealing ball at a height of 133 meters in 35 seconds, and the diameter of the tower at the ground is 20 meters, The tower contains a reservoir to hold a million gallons of water.

As for the two balls, they are:

Main first ball:

Includes Horizon Restaurant

The Oasis Dasman Hall
The oasis
The second ball: (Detector Ball)

It is divided into two parts:

The first section "Thabet": 120 meters above sea level.
The second "moving" section: its height is 123 meters and it rotates a full session every half an hour. There is also a gift shop and cafeteria in which drinks and snacks and snacks are served. This section is characterized by the presence of a telescope to see the surrounding landmarks around the towers and the areas of Kuwait, the Green Island and Dasman Palace.

Middle tower:
It is a water tank with a height of 147 meters and a capacity of one million gallons of cubic meters, and a diameter at the ground of 18 meters.

Smallest tower:
A tower dedicated to controlling the conduction of electricity to the surrounding area and its suburbs with a height of 113 meters and lighting the other two towers by means of strong searchlights installed in it and numbering about 100 scouts, and the diameter at the ground is 12 meters.

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait:
The towers were reopened on December 26, 1992 after being exposed to sabotage, robbery, and destruction in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The destruction of the towers was 70%. Technical devices and equipment were destroyed, glass was broken, roles were burned and electricity cables were cut. Losses were estimated at two million Kuwaiti dinars, and after Freeing Kuwait from the invasion. The Touristic Projects Company formed a committee to assess the damages and restore the facilities to their previous times. The electrical current was delivered to them after the repair and maintenance of the electrical stations and the water network.

The repairs included painting the towers from the outside, restoring them from the inside, exchanging furniture and decor, planting gardens, and providing devices, equipment, and supplies for the tower restaurants. On December 26, 1992, the Minister of Finance and Minister of Planning Nasser Al-Rawdan opened the towers.

Site:
Kuwait Towers is located on the shore of the Arabian Gulf, opposite Dasman Al-Amir Palace, in Sharq District, Kuwait City.