Warba Insurance Company HQ

as you can see from the render Warba Insurance tower is adjacent to universal tower in kuwait city,no further info up to this time

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/7434/dsc005902oo.jpg

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/4012/dsc005916bp.jpg

i thot that building is ownd by al arabiah realestate Co.

Thanks a lot for the info Skoulikimou. The tower looks quite good. It's good to see that they have incorporated the design of Universal Tower into their design because they are very close to each other :)

picture taken on the 27-06-06
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/7738/dsc014664ix.jpg

looking good! :)

Well, it's advanced from the last update (thanks Skoulikimou BTW), it is on the 5th floor and a short way to complete the view (with the universal tower) :)

19-07-06
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/9118/dsc01542bp0.jpg

very slow...

why doesn't the construction have a crane or something ?!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD POINT Crazy 3mal ga3ed yebnona LOOOOOOOOOOL, GOD give them one crane :)

Yeah, why is it slow, and yeah CrazY it seems pretty weird that there is no crane.

maybe its construction cost? a crane costs from 3000 to 30000$ US to rent it and the driver is paid between 15 000$ to 35 000$ an hour...

isnt it impossible to make a building without a crane?

07-08-06
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/2899/dsc00663dj1.jpg

thnx 4 the update skouli, it's weird that they dont have a crane :S

i think this project is moving on nicely .. not slow to me

but without a crane :r

why is it stuck to universal tower ?? this is the only tower in kuwait which is on my nerves :mad2: :wallbash: :cry:

nice....
thank you.

I think the crane was not used for cntruction bcz of its slanting pillars or the crane might bash the universal tower

this is not an excuses, chix love, but what wrong with us guys, it's getting built :bash:

man !! the construction of this building is too SLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bash: :runaway: :weirdo:

yeah indeed it's slow "with out crane" and here we go again :)

is the building's contractor/builder a company or a person?

building something this big without a crane is usually done to save costs. i lived in New Delhi, India for six years, and all of the city's construction was done WITHOUT a crane.

prime example: there was a government hotel in downtown New Delhi, known as the Kanishka. it was a four-star place that opened in the 1970s, but it was falling apart everywhere. in 2003, world-famous hotel chain Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts took over the hotel's management and shut down the building to give it a thirty-two million dollar makeover. this involved knocking down the exterior and completely rebuilding and redesigning the hotel's interior. the place was scheduled to open in December 2004.

the end result: it opened in early 2006. the reason: the hotel's reconstruction was done without a crane. the interior work wrapped up very quickly, but the seventeen-floor building's exterior had to be reworked with SCAFFOLDS. i kid you not, workers literally had to climb seventeen flights of stairs, get to the roof of the building, roll huge tarps down the front of the building to conceal the work, and go all the way down and work their way to the top. in early 2005, there was a heavy monsoon and rainstorm, and it literally tore the scaffolding off the front. MAJOR SETBACK: this all had to be set up again and work had to resume. all this because the contractor wanted to save a few thousand dollars rather than rent a crane.

seems like this tower's going through the same phase as the Shangri-La did.

oh well, not the first time Kuwait tries to cut corners and save money.

sorry for the pessimism, i'm getting sick of all of this "save money, cancel this, put that on hold, we have to restudy this" concept that's holding the country back.

kuwaiti_patriot

06-09-06
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4946/dsc00765na8.jpg

cool

Picture taken on 18-10-2006

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/166/P1010840.jpg

altima a289ed progress mashallah :P :jk:

oh so thats 2 different towers incorporated into each other :p I didn't get it at first. they look nice together.

Update 06/11/06

i like the sky's color :drool:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/DSC00043.jpg

those two towers are creating a consistancy badly needed in kuwait city.. though they are not beautiful buildings their heights are making up for their flows ...

in other words ma3a ba3th 7elween :P

update 18/11/06

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/DSC00176.jpg

^^ Thanks CrazY, it looks like it's going to top-out in no time.

yeah they are, and massaleh real estate com. owner of universal tower were complaing about warba's tower consruction !! they said that they destroyed some of their towers glass by their crane, and that they aren't following safety measure to ensure the safety of padestrian and the safety of people in universal tower... !!

update 02/12/06

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/DSC00355.jpg

COOOOL, and there is a new crane lol, and TANK YOOOOOO CRASII << in a Japaneses accent :P

and they are on the final floors really cool :D

NICE ... :cheers1:


thank you CrazY for the update :cheers:

LOOL,, i dont know why, but i cant resist not to take updates for this tower :S

11/12/06

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/warb.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/warb2.jpg

well that's good :), thnx crazy

I finally see that's those two building complete each other, hmmm........ if you see it after all the two building are great together, look at how the universal tower have a curve and then comes the warba tower and end this curve with an angle, I think it's lovely don't you agree with me GUYS :D

ur right ahmadjam, they really complete eachother, they really bond together

update 03/01/07

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/DSC01463.jpg

The tower's looking good, thanks CrazY.

08-01-2007

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/350417546_b4d5af4c6b_b.jpg

it topped out, right ?? doesn't look like it :S

12/02/07

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/DSC00541.jpg

thanx Crazy for your energy ;) good work

they put the pointy thing on the top ;p

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/DSC00632-1.jpg

the progress in this tower is really slow :(

Update 16-05-2007


http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g179/F9y/Warbatower1.jpg


http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g179/F9y/Warbatower2.jpg

:)

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/DSC00516.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/My_picture3.jpg

there's a building in front of these will be demolished or is demolished now ... that part of the city is being renovated ... great and good work crazy

30/06/07

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/DSC00633.jpg

good work Crazy.. ya36eek el3afya

Today
http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/2679/dsc00003no1.jpg

19-08-07
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4188/dsc01371oh2.jpg

It's almost done

thank you skouli

02/10/07

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd166/7amani1/DSC00190.jpg

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd166/7amani1/DSC00192.jpg

waw its almost done .. thanx Crazy .. its a great effort

i found some interesting information regarding this tower
^^warba tower will be using solar power energy

برج وربة
- يقع مباشرة في محاذاة UNIVERSAL tower وعلى بعد خطوات من سوق الكويت للاوراق المالية وهو مخصص بالكامل لاستخدام شركة وربة للتأمين.
تعود ملكيته للشركة: شكله يشبه الهرم، مساحة طوابقه ال 22 'بما فيها مساحات الخدمات' متفاوتة اكبرها يبلغ 420م2.
مبنى وربة للتأمين من اوائل المباني التي تستخدم الطاقة الشمسية مراعاة لتوفير الطاقة ولترشيد الانفاق، وقد تحملت الشركة اعباء مالية اضافية بغية تأمين هذا الامر.
والجدير ذكره ان الطاقة الشمسية المخزنة نهارا في البرج ستستخدم للانارة الليلية للمبنى دون استهلاك الطاقة الكهربائية.
- البناء في مراحله النهائية والمخطط له ان يتزامن انتقال مكاتب شركة وربة للتأمين الى المبنى الجديد مع احتفال الكويت بعيدي التحرير والوطني في 25 و26 فبراير 2008 .
www.alqabas.com

wow, thats really something :) good for them

31-12-07

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd166/7amani1/DSC00211-2.jpg

wow.. the two towers seems as one... verp complimenting each other..nice

yes i agree with danny, those tow towers look great together .

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2894851130_abba24e6f7_b.jpg
- italian in q8

hmmm looks nice..probably one of the best building in kuwait as far as design is concerned..very different design