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About Kuwait Water Towers

Three shafts on a Gulf promontory, two of them carrying water and one carrying only floodlights for the other two. Some 41,000 enamelled steel discs spiral across the spheres in eight shades of blue, green and grey — a mosque dome rebuilt out of industrial cladding by a Danish designer and a Swedish engineering office.

This system takes the night reading as the default, because the night reading was designed rather than imposed. Pale concrete is an accent, never the ground. Colour moves in documented steps along a ramp; pattern follows a rotational path, never a flat grid.

Learn more about the Kuwait Water Towers style

Origin
Kuwait City, Kuwait — Arabian Gulf
Era
1950–1990 (designed 1969–71, built 1971–76, opened 1 March 1979)
Key figures
Malene Bjørn · Sune Lindström
Movements
Gulf oil-era modernism · Scandinavian structural engineering abroad · infrastructure-as-monument

Kuwait Water Towers design spec

Colors

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Surface
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Accent
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Typography

ArchivoHeadings
Work SansBody
IBM Plex MonoMono
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