IKARUS Sanctuary (Failaka Health Resort)

This project is a proposed project in the Kuwait Fund Engineering Program (Phase1)

IKARUS Sanctuary is a health resort, which will be located in Failaka Island. This health resort will present a new perspective to the health resorts with its modern design, services and facilities. The facilities include relaxation areas, a fitness center, spa centers, clinic and healthy restaurants. All the services provided by the resort are aimed to provide a better health care to patients and to ensure their satisfaction during their stay. By hosting the most talented and experienced professors and doctors in the medical field, the resort will be able to attract people to Failaka Island.

Here is the link.

Caribou New Logo = Omar In Arabic!!

I like going to Caribou Coffee, and since they announce their new logo,  and I was wondering if the new logo or the old one is more obvious and clear to look like a Jumping animal.

The new logo does not resemble the caribou animal, it might be abstraction for it, but what I see is a funky way to write my name in arabic. What do you think??

Eat Your Kimchi Youtube Channel

People who are going to Korea (like me, myself and I), this channel have a lot of useful and funny videos about Korea done by two Canadians “Simon and Martina”, check out the first video about how to speak Korean.

They mentioned in their channel:

We’re a young Canadian married couple teaching English in Bucheon, South Korea.

We love food!
We love adventures!
We love life!
We love Korea!

We want to show you what everyday life is like when living in Korea. Check out our website for blogs, videos, and pictures.

Here is the link for the video “why Korea is still awesome”.

The Stages Of Grief

I wanted to post about this topic long time ago, but I think this is the right time to post about the stages of grief which

K3DP Update Vol.2 – Zone 2

This is the second update for Kuwait 3D Project (turned out we have 837 buildings to detail, and we did 30 building so far)

The area is rich of luxurious mall, governmental buildings, restaurants, open shops, hotel, and residential apartments, some of the buildings i detailed it in a way better than reality (just to show how it was at the golden days)

Building 16: TV building – Ministry of Information

Building Number 1

Building 5Building 2 – Al Soor Tower

Building 26 -  Al-Sahab Tower

Building 22 & 21

Building 23 -  JW Marriott Hotel

 

We hope you will like the new way of showing the 3D, check out Zone 1 and please tell us which one is better??

Also you can join our facebook page here, we would like to know your opinions and suggestions.

Peace Means Safety!!!

When I am Stuck in traffic I like to read the quotes on bridges, billboards and small signs near

My Car CD 16: March 2011

19 Tracks…

KASA 10th Anniversary/Reunion

Last Monday I attended this event for (KASA: Kuwait Architectural Student Association), it was so organized and professional event, I had great time there, and I would like to thank them for the Kuwait 3D Project award, wishing them best of luck in the near future.

I liked the video quality and I have to say that they picked a great soundtrack for the video, great efforts done by students, keep up the good work. Here is the link.

K3DP Update Vol.1

Do your remember My first post about Kuwait 3d Project,  I will keep posting updates once in a while about the latest detailed buildings, and for more information you can check out the facebook page here, or visit arch of kuwait for high resolution images.

Also I would like to thank KASA (Kuwait Architectural Students Association) for the award, wishing them best of luck in their future.

Here We Go Again!!

I hope the new theme is better than the previous one, I had a technical problem with WordPress terms for a while it was Deactivated, and hopefully everything is settled now, so I thought about changing the style, so please share with me any suggestion or comment about the new blog name “The O.D.”

The domain will still remain as swaleff.com