
Kuwait University has just planned a new 10 year project. The project involves construction of a new University City that will provide a modern campus with state of the art facilities for academic staff, students and other employees of Kuwait University. The Government of Kuwait has allocated 5.2 square kilometres of land in the Al Shadidiyah area for the project. The new campus will be co-educational with segregated facilities. It will include several faculties, dormitories, sports facilities and auditoriums as well as car parks for several thousand vehicles. There will also be a medical school and an associated 400-bed teaching hospital. The university city will be developed in stages over ten years and will eventually accommodate up to 40,000 students, permitting the consolidation of Kuwait University’s various existing campuses around the city. The campus will cost about $3 billion over ten years. The planning and design for the new university is being carried out by the Canadian Consortium of Architects and Buro Happold.
Some of Buro Happold Projects:
- Arsenal F.C.’s Emirates Stadium in London[27]
- The Millennium Dome and the later redevelopment as the The O2 in London
- The British Museum Queen Elizabeth II Great Court Roof in London[15]
- The Al Faisaliah Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia[40]
- Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt;[47]
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s
- they designed folding, umbrella-like canopies to shade the courtyard of Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (The Mosque of the Prophet) in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
مشروع جامعة الكويت الجديد في منطقة الشدادية، وتم تسوير المنطقة المراد اقامة المشروع عليها، على الدائري السادس، مقابل مستشفى الفروانية، وقريب من استاد الشيخ جابر
July 24, 2008 at 8:27 pm
thnx bro for this post… actually we need such a campus that utilize students abilities and comforts…
but I think the location need to be considered again in their plans although they have already fence the area…
July 25, 2008 at 11:32 am
I think the location is perfect. away from the traffic. near Jaber AL-Ahmad Stadium. Its not that far! we suffer greatly during the morning period and the graduate student tend to complain allot about the traffic in Shuwaikh area.