Gate of Kuwait Gate of Kuwait Gate of Kuwait is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The 84 storey, building is planned to be used as a five-star hotel, office space, multi-storey car park, convention center and high-end retail space. The developer is Alshaya Group. Initial plans for the project called for a tower with a Islamic arch. The intricately decorated arch, which featured geometric shapes and forms, was designed to reflect religious architectural elements found in Kuwait and Islam. However, a redesign saw the tower re-imagined as a slender tower clad entirely in blue glass on the façade and
Culture of Kuwait Culture of Kuwait Kuwaiti popular culture, in the form of dialect poetry, film, theatre, radio and television soap opera, flourishes and is even exported to neighboring states. Within the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, the culture of Kuwait is the closest to the culture of Bahrain. Kuwait has the oldest modern arts movement in the Arabian Peninsula. Beginning in 1936, Kuwait was the first Gulf country to grant scholarships in the arts. The Kuwaiti artist Mojeb al-Dousari was the earliest recognized visual artist in the Gulf region. He is regarded as the founder of portrait art in the region.