History

Pearl Marzouq, a modern architectural beacon, docked on the shores of the Arabian Gulf in the early seventies. The building came to fruition with the vision of Kuwait Real Estate Co. (Aqarat). This modern housing Complex was erected on a 5,600 sq m plot in Ras Al-Salmiya known as the “La’ala (Pearl) Al-Marzouq” Complex.

Geographically, the building is located on the tip of a peninsula, concealing itself from the main Gulf Road running all along the coastline. Until the eighties, its seawater swimming pool was directly located on the sea. Thereafter, a promenade strip, with generous green areas, stepped in between the turquoise sea and the sandstone walls.

The building has four blocks, and internalizes a courtyard. A wide raised corridor wraps around with different communal programs feeding into it. The raised “artificial ground” becomes a social space with vast corridors and shops tucked into the building’s ground floor. The southern block along the main road is only 2-storeys high, letting the generous southern sunlight into the courtyard. The other three residential blocks comprise nine floors each atop the ground floor; with five elevator skip-stops on split-level corridors. Four duplexes are topped by single-floor penthouses.

The side blocks span more than 90 m between the road and the sea, with 10 apartments laid side-by-side on every floor. The back block fronting the sea along 62 m, lines eight apartments on each floor, which enjoy the most beautiful Sugimotos framed by deep punched fenestrations.