SSH, a leading masterplanning, infrastructure, building design company in the Middle East, has announced that one of its major projects - Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre, a museum district within Kuwait City - has been named winner of the Public Services Architecture award for Kuwait at the Africa & Arabia Property Awards 2018-2019.

The award will be presented at the official ceremony on October 11 at The Waldorf Astoria Palm Jumeirah Hotel, in Dubai.

At the upcoming event, it will be announced whether the project has been a regional category winner and nominated to compete with other regional category winners for the global International Property Awards to be held at London in December.

Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre (ASCC) is being developed as part of the Amiri Diwan of Kuwait’s vision for the country attaining cultural hub status for Mena region and beyond.

A new world-class museum district within Kuwait City, ASCC is a celebration of Kuwaiti, Islamic and Arab culture and history. Since its inauguration in February, the centre has embraced and showcased the rich diversity of the world’s finest cultural achievements, with the scale, shapes and shades of the buildings designed to convey a sense of wonder and awe worthy of such accomplishments.

The complex is tied together by its central ‘street’; a covered thoroughfare forming ASCC’s spine that evokes walking down a traditional, busy Kuwaiti street.

Meandering through the district beneath the spine’s technologically advanced canopy is a journey of surprises, revealing exciting spaces, Islamic patterns, corners and walkways, while offering stunning views deep into each museum building.

Visitors can enjoy six distinct experiences, each housed within their own buildings at the complex, which are a Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Museum of Islamic History, and Space Museum, as well as a Fine Arts Centre and Theatre. Each building contains an array of permanent and temporary world-class exhibits and artworks.

SSH said it was appointed by Al Ghanim International as lead architecture and engineering designer for the complex. Working collaboratively with world-leading museum specialists, the company was able to deliver the ASCC project for the Amiri Diwan to the stringent standards required of world-class public cultural buildings, it added.-TradeArabia News Service