#COMPLETED :"360 Kuwait"

[Bu Yusef]

Tamdeen Shopping Center Development Company (Tamdeen SCD)announced new project called (( 360 Degrees Kuwait )) located in South Surra ( Cinema elsyarat location ) with a gross leasable area of 59,000 square meters to be opened 2007 , The mall will have many stores , a hypermarket , 15 cinema hall and IMAX theater, and be surrounded by gardens, water and leisure facilities .

[Pearl of the Gulf]

i like the palm trees in the water, cool idea..

[Skoulikimou]

finally we have a render ,
good jop Bu Yusef keep them coming

[Bu Yusef]

I like the palms too and i hop they will do it without any changing !!!

[Skoulikimou]

well they might scrap the palms and the water theme off to keep the cost of the construction down , well that a major problem in kuwait which is poor landscaping

[Gilgamesh]

looks awesome!

[Bu Yusef]

your welcome skoulikimou , and amazing will be coming

[Pearl of the Gulf]

Originally Posted by skoulikimou

well they might scrap the palms and the water theme off to keep the cost of the construction down , well that a major problem in kuwait which is poor landscaping

you have to keep in mind our weather doesn’t really help, they spend massive amounts of money on landscaping and it would live past the summer.

[freediver]

Originally Posted by Pearl of the Gulf

you have to keep in mind our weather doesn’t really help, they spend massive amounts of money on landscaping and it would live past the summer.

We have to do our landscapping with more thought of our environment. We live in a harsh hot dry country. There are many ways to do that. The use of geotextile fabric and water retention fabrics are one of many ways you can maximize the use of water. Remember any plant or tree has its roots "bathed" with water. This amount of water is only around 5% of the total irrigated water. Now if you design beforehand the landscapping so that this water can be recouped and channeled into an underwater reservoir to be re-used again, you immediately reduce the needed amount of water by 95%. I have yet to see a single project in Kuwait utilize this scheme. It might cost a little more in the initial cost, but it will more than pay for itself many times over in the future.

Believe it or not, Kuwait has an excess of water and during the hottest summer months when the Hydro Electric plants are producing much more energy than usual (for AC) the by product water is just thrown directely to the sea. The amount last year was more than 28 million gallons a day of pure fresh water. Ironically during the winter months we have to produce more electricity than we need because we are in need of more fresh water. It would not take a genius to realize that a much better idea is to store the excess water in large strategic reservoirs to be used when needed instead of running the boilers in the winter just to make water. It would save a tremendous amount of energy and make a lot more sense. It is amazing that the status quo goes on unchallenged year after year ...

[AlOnSi]

Originally Posted by skoulikimou

well they might scrap the palms and the water theme off to keep the cost of the construction down

I'd say scrap the palms and the water theme build parking instead cuz thats what we need ... in Kuwait you must think of the parkings before the project

[differences75]

Parkings should be built in such a way that it doesn't take some much land... that would be a waste ... a multi-story car park is an ideal solution at the time being

[NEWUSER]

Construction cost.. cheaper to keep it above ground.. Good luck getting in your car at 3PM when its nice and crispy...

[Pearl of the Gulf]

Originally Posted by freediver

We have to do our landscapping with more thought of our environment. We live in a harsh hot dry country. There are many ways to do that. The use of geotextile fabric and water retention fabrics are one of many ways you can maximize the use of water. Remember any plant or tree has its roots "bathed" with water. This amount of water is only around 5% of the total irrigated water. Now if you design beforehand the landscapping so that this water can be recouped and channeled into an underwater reservoir to be re-used again, you immediately reduce the needed amount of water by 95%. I have yet to see a single project in Kuwait utilize this scheme. It might cost a little more in the initial cost, but it will more than pay for itself many times over in the future.

i wish our governments would listen to that sort of reasoning; instead they acquire the opinion of a highly overpaid foreign expert who hasn’t lived in the country and doesn’t grasp how large the difference is between our environment and his.

[vc15nets]

Nice Project!

[MillenniaL]

Originally Posted by Pearl of the Gulf

i like the palm trees in the water, cool idea..

yea they look astonishing

[AlOnSi]

Pictures of the construction site
Taken on 26-3-2006

[Koweitien]

Thanks AlOnSi for the update. It's nice to see some progress in this project. I can see a circular building on the right in the first pic is that the actual mall ?

[AlOnSi]

I didnt look at it but I think its what left from the old cinema

[margog]

Thanx AlOnSi for the update good pics

[Bu Yusef]

Thanks Alonsi for the update pics.