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^ "Al Hamra Firdous Tower, Kuwait City".^ a b c "Al Hamra Tower – The Skyscraper Center".^ "Al Hamra Tower, Kuwait City – Verdict Designbuild".Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Tower in Abu Dhabi, another skyscraper with a fold-like exterior.2007: Miami Architectural Bienal - Bronze Unbuilt Project.2008: MIPIM/Architectural Review - MIPIM Future Project Award: Tall Buildings.2008: MIPIM/ Architectural Review - MIPIM Future Project Award: Overall.2008: Chicago Athenaeum - International Architecture Award for best new global design.2008: Chicago Athenaeum - American Architecture Award.The tower was included in the list of the best inventions of 2011 by Time magazine. The landscape was designed by Francis Landscapes. Flared walls reaching from the southwest and southeast corners of the core span the entire height of the tower, and there is a column-free 24-meter-tall lobby The building utilizes wrapped glass on the east, north, and west both for aesthetics and to reduce the amount of reflective surface area on the south facade, which also features brushed Jura limestone. Designed by architectural firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Ramshir and Callison, it is the tallest curved concrete skyscraper in the world, and the thirty-sixth tallest building in the world at 414 m (1,358 ft). Construction of the skyscraper started in 2005. The Al Hamra Firduos Tower is a skyscraper in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Gary Paul Haney Skidmore Owings & MerrillĢ012 Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa Finalist