National Assembly Logo Competition

By Hessa Al Habashi

In case you're good at graphic design or you just want to participate in a competition, I suggest you check out the competition to design the new National Assembly logo. 

You can check the guidelines to the competition here and the winner will recieve a prize of KD5,000

Head on over to their website to join.

"Not Just a Pop-Up" By Visual Therapy

By Hessa Al Habashi

Visual Therapy will be presenting their very first show in Dar Al Funoon on Tuesday, 16th of July. The event will have a live mural during the show which will be painted by Monstariam, a graffiti artist in Kuwait, and will also feature artwork by Kuwaiti artist F160 and artist Zebadiah Keneally.

Visual Therapy's ‘Not Just a Pop-Up’ will also have a graffiti shop that will be selling street art supplies and merchandise. It will also be debuting their second t-shirt collaboration with Iranian Artist, A1-one.

The event will be from 8-11 pm, for more information please visit www.visualtherapyonline.com

"City of Silk"

By Hessa Al Habashi
Photography credits http://www.civicarts.com/madinat-al-hareer.php

            I was one of those people who thought that Kuwait was never going to come up with something new and surprising. I thought it was just going to pop up with one shopping mall after another, and that was how Kuwait was going to be for the rest of our lives. Apparently, apparently I was mistaken.

I came across a recent CNN interview with Sheikh Mohammed Al Abdullah Al Sabah and the Kuwaiti Minister of State government spokesman who have stated that Madinat Al Hareer or "City of Silk" will begin construction over the next five years.

They've recognized that Kuwait has lagged in developing its country unlike other countries such as Japan and Singapore; and will begin a project which will be the largest in the Gulf region. It will cost approximately 270 billion Kuwaiti Dinars.  

“City of Silk will be an integrated city, home to more than 700 thousand people and designed with more means of communication and modern technology and considered the largest construction project Kuwait history has known. It is set to complete during the next five years and will be a key factor to attract local and foreign investments and the construction will continue for 15 years to come.”  

Madinat Al Hareer will be built in Subiyah area, north of the Kuwait Bay, and proposes a future of sustainability in Kuwait. It will not only house the tallest building in the world (One Kilometer Long) - Burj Mubarak al Kabeer, but will also supply 700,000 people homes and create 450,000 jobs. It will have a sports complex and a duty free mall.

The architects in charge are the CivicArts architecture firm, which has released renderings over the past few years. This city will also be the home of a new international airport as well as a new National Park and Wildlife Reserve. 

It will be divided into separate districts/regions:

-Business

-Culture

-Leisure

Underneath are pictures of the hopefully future city which will be created in Kuwait; here's for hoping it actually gets built instead of just becoming another myth like the Kuwaiti Metro.