Ahmed Omara

Review of Kuwait Franchise

The Kuwait Towers are three towers on the Arabian ...

The Kuwait Towers are three towers on the Arabian Gulf coast in Kuwait City in an area called Ras Agouza, designed by the Lindstrom engineering office in Sweden and implemented by the Yugoslav Energoproject company where it was built in 1975 and was officially opened on March 1 of 1979, and the height reaches The main tower to 187 meters. [1]. It is considered one of the most prominent features of Kuwait and it represents 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 [2].

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 [3].

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 [4].

On the 14th of November 2007, the Kuwait 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 [5].

On March 5, 2009 the Kuwait Rally 2009 was launched in front of the towers [6].