[TAEP - The Associated Engineering Partnership / AAP - Associated Architects Partnership - The Red Dot - COVER IMG] Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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The Red Dot

PrizeHonorable Mention in Architectural Design / Other Architecture
Firm LocationKuwait /, Portugal
Project locationKuwait City
CompanyTAEP - The Associated Engineering Partnership / AAP - Associated Architects Partnership
Lead ArchitectAAP - Associated Architects Partnership

Hamra, red in Arabic, is what defines the most prominent element in this intervention, the west valet canopy at the base of SOM’s award-winning Al Hamra Tower. A structure that assumes its primal function with striking presence, mostly due to its glossy finished shape and therefore establishing a dialogue between the building it self and the organic components that surround it. The Red Dot, becomes a landmark to supplement the site’s unique identity, along with a landscape reinterpretation that adapts and re-utilizes certain existing features, reconfiguring and reconnecting this urban space.