The Avenues

Extension with Texlon® ETFE 

The Avenues' architecture showcases how innovative architecture combines sustainability and user-focused design.

The Grand Avenue mall, The Souk, and Prestige are all expansions of the existing popular districts. All new districts, featuring modern and diverse concepts, include The Arcades, The Grand Plaza, The Forum, The Gardens, The Cinema, and Electra, as well as two highly rated hotels. These areas are covered with over 42,000 m2 of Texlon® ETFE. That is an amazing extension and a testimonial for the satisfaction of Texlon® ETFE as a building material.

New Developed Districts

The newly developed districts enhance the well-being of all visitors who spend time at The Avenues Kuwait for shopping, entertainment and various leisure activities. This retail concept of open streets – under a translucent roof – set new standards of contemporary building in the Arab world. In short, it creates a year-round shopping and entertainment experience in Kuwait's harsh climate.

Light-flooded Districts
Prestige Garden District is a beautiful courtyard bringing the outdoors indoors thanks to the Texlon® ETFE overhead. It floods the district with light and allows healthy plants. Visitors will enjoy the dining spaces in the environmentally conscious space and spend more time there.

The lightweight steel structure at the Dome supports nine unique foil cushion sizes, the largest spanning 20 m², and the smallest, along the edge, is 3 m². Further, the unique honeycomb-shaped cushions, illuminated by LED lights along the structure, set this Dome apart from other roofs and facades. Most importantly, the 3,900 m² transparent, two-layer Texlon® ETFE roof floods the room with light while creating a comfortable space.

Although the aforementioned cushions are very large, the largest Texlon® ETFE cushions are installed in the extension of the Grand Avenues. These giant cushions are almost ½ the length of a football field, measuring 48 meters long by 4.5 meters wide, totalling over 220 m² of cushioning. As a result, all visitors feel comfortable during their visit to the light-flooded area.

The Avenues' architecture sets new standards in efficiency and environmentally friendly construction.

The Electra district is covered with a special Texlon® ETFE combination. It is a three-layer system with printed white foil on the top and bottom layers, and blue colored foil in the middle layer of the cushion. This adds to the unique effect the team wants to create for the visitors of The Avenues.

The expansion is part of owner Mabanee's (Al Rai Real Estate Company) efforts to further enrich the unique shopping and entertainment experience at The Avenues. Mabanee is collaborating with Gensler and Pace. Congratulations to everyone involved.

With forward-thinking solutions, the Avenues architecture represents a benchmark for future projects worldwide.