Scheme includes new architecture college

HOK has won a scheme to design new campus buildings for a new university complex being built in Kuwait.

The US practice, which has an office in London, will design a new college of architecture and college of computing sciences and engineering at the Sabah Al-Salem University City at Shadadiyah.

The site is on the south-west of Kuwait City (pictured) and is being built on a six million sq m plot.

Located on opposite ends of the site, the buildings, which run across 44,500sq m,will form new gateways at the western and eastern ends of the campus.

HOK has previously been involved with the project, working as a consultant on the campus masterplan and Daniel Hajjar, managing principal for HOK’s London office, said: “[That] has enabled us to maintain and advance the plan’s principles in the design of the individual buildings.”

HOK’s previous design projects in the country include two schemes in Kuwait City – the 42-storey Central Bank of Kuwait headquarters and the 52-storey Crystal Tower mixed-use scheme.

 

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