The Al Hamra Tower is a skyscraper in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and the tallest building in the country. Construction began in 2005 and finished in 2011; designed by the architectural firms Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Ramshir and Callison, it is the tallest curved concrete skyscraper in the world and, at 414 meters, the fortieth tallest building in the world.
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Wikidata: Al Hamra Tower
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Kuwait, located there.
Sources
1. Al Hamra Tower (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationlead paragraph
The Al Hamra Tower is a skyscraper in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is the tallest building in Kuwait.
lead paragraph, construction sentence
Construction of the skyscraper started in 2005. It was completed in 2011.
lead paragraph, height sentence
Designed by architectural firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Ramshir and Callison, it is the tallest curved concrete skyscraper in the world, and the 40th tallest building in the world at 414 m (1,358 ft).
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The Al Hamra Tower is a skyscraper in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and the tallest building in the country. Construction began in 2005 and finished in 2011; designed by the architectural firms Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Ramshir and Callison, it is the tallest curved concrete skyscraper in the world and, at 414 meters, the fortieth tallest building in the world.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Al Hamra Tower
- Wikidata Q557933, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q557933, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
- Uses Element: Concrete, Infobox material field: Concrete
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