In our award winning entry for KFAS new HQ, the L-shaped building steps back as it rises, allowing the existing promenade meadow to spill into the site—expanding the public open space while establishing a respectful setback from Pearl Marzouq. This gesture opens reciprocal views between both buildings toward the Arabian Sea.

Conceived as a landswell, the meadow integrates technical services and parking beneath, merging infrastructure with landscape and reinforcing the continuity of the public realm along the waterfront.

PAD10 Architects was selected as a finalist (5th out of 110 entries from 25 countries) in the international anonymous 2-stage competition for the KFAS HQ & Convention Center, organized by Phase EINS. ...

PAD10’s finalist proposal for the KFAS HQ & Convention Center interlaces two key buildings along Kuwait’s most prominent coastal stretch, extending the existing Scientific Center promenade into a continuous “Science Mile” culminating in a shaded public plaza beneath the Convention Center’s cantilever.

The HQ rises as an L-shaped volume, stepping from 3 to 8 floors—set back to preserve and frame views to and from Pearl Marzouq, while minimizing solar exposure and opening toward the sea. Its terraced façade forms an urban canopy, shaping shaded public edges and a vertical promenade that connects landscape, offices, and roof gardens.

Together, the HQ and Convention Center operate as a layered civic landscape—where architecture, promenade, and waterfront merge into a continuous public realm.

Finalist Award — ranked 5th out of 110 entries from 25 countries (Phase-EINS competition 2-stage competition).

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A CROP OF CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION WORKS: Faba Residence is currently under construction in Kuwait City (Dahiyat Abdullah Al Salem).

Set on a compact corner plot, the house is shaped by a continuous sequence of terraces that wind from a generous setback up to the rooftop—forming a spatial gradient where interior and exterior become one. Layered, elevated, and porous, the project unfolds as a series of rooms and thresholds through which life extends outward.

Architecture here becomes an inhabited topography, carefully balancing privacy, light, and openness.

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A CROP OF CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION WORKS: A sculpted veil wraps the villa—filtering light, framing privacy, and softening the boundary between inside and out. Layer by layer, the architecture unfolds: solid and porous, intimate yet open, grounding the home within its context while elevating the experience of living.

A contemporary retreat where materiality, light, and landscape are in constant dialogue—where the façade is not just enclosure, but atmosphere.

Description and read more: https://pad10.com/veil-residence-kuwait/

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Akai — a new commercial destination in Kuwait by our award-winning office — activates the street as a social stage. Retail spills outward beneath a canopy of palms, while the sloping roof invites life upward to a sequence of terraces and cafés. Day transitions into night as light, movement, and gathering redefine the edge between city and architecture—where the sidewalk becomes destination.

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Akai — a new commercial destination in Kuwait by our award-winning office — redefines the shopping experience by extending the sidewalk into the building and elevating it to the roof. Layers of outdoor space dissolve into the interior, softening the boundary between luxury and everyday ease. The slanted, wrapping geometry connects street life to rooftop cafés, creating a continuous dialogue between levels—where seeing and being seen becomes part of the architecture.

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The barn, reimagined.

Its archetypal skin unfolds as an interface between in and out—
sea and sky, pool and garden—
revealing and concealing in equal measure.

An unflattened surface, shaped through iterations, wraps the volume,
cocooning the family—afloat above the underpass that connects garden to seashore.

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Between line and light.

What begins as a precise section becomes a lived atmosphere—
a quiet shift from drawing to dwelling.

The rigor of geometry holds,
yet the building softens in reality:
light filters, materials warm,
and space is finally inhabited.

Architecture is not only what we draw—
it is what light reveals,
what time shapes,
and what people make their own.

From line → space → life.

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The landscape swells—
rising, folding, and penetrating the guesthouse at multiple levels,
turning access into an act of hospitality.

What was once a boundary becomes porous,
an architecture to be crossed, entered, and inhabited from all sides.

The structure stretches along the terrain,
within it and through it—
impregnating the landscape rather than sitting upon it.

Spaces unfold as continuities rather than rooms,
each threshold dissolving into the next,
until it stretches out to claim an outpost— far-reaching, looking toward the sea beyond - and meet the viewer stepping out of the clay studio, topping the barn.

Photograpphy: @joaodmorgado

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Museum in the Park, Finland

Reflecting Tradition: The wooden cladded museum’s envelope is a metaphor reflecting the Finnish shipbuilding tradition and history. From below, the structure resembles the hulls of ships, and the roof decks extend the experience.
A Vibrant Green Park: The green roofs and terraces transform into a vibrant park that connects back to the natural elements of the site. The museum lifts itself up to become a catalyst to its surroundings, rather than an end to them.

Competition Entry in collaboration with marienarchitecture
Read more: https://www.pad10.com/a-museum-in-the-park/ ...

Museum in the Park, Finland

Seamlessly integrating with Linnanpuisto Castle Park, the Museum in the Park extends the park towards the waterfront, elevating into a cascaded open theater with the castle as a backdrop. Rather than merely occupying the site, the building canopies over it, transforming the waterfront walkway into an extended parkway.

Engaging Surroundings: The museum, a multi-level park, physically and culturally enriches its surroundings. It offers higher vantage points towards the landscape, Turku’s Castle, the river Aura, the port/ferry terminal, and the island of Ruissalo.

Competition Entry in collaboration with marienarchitecture
Read more: https://www.pad10.com/a-museum-in-the-park/ ...

Al Ula House, KSA
Award-winning Competition Entry
100 Architects for 100 Houses

Al Ula House has the local family living in elevated grounds, accessed by inset ones, while the guest family occupying loosely the ground level.

Read more: https://www.pad10.com/alulahouse/ ...

Al Ula House, KSA
Award-winning Competition Entry
100 Architects for 100 Houses

Reinterpreting, at onset, Past Traditions from existing Al-Ula dwelling prototypes to fit the Present Narrative of Himaya Program, where locals host travelling guests. The “Himaya Guesthouse” is a 2-family dwelling.

Read more: https://www.pad10.com/alulahouse/ ...

Al Ula House, KSA
Award-winning Competition Entry
100 Architects for 100 Houses

A primordial interpretation of the landscape, flipped upside-down, wraps around the program with gradualness; from “closed” to “open” and from “private” to “public”.

Read more: https://www.pad10.com/alulahouse/ ...

Situated on narrow strips of land between the Arabian Sea’s sandy beach and a palm oasis, the project unfolds as five linear chalets carefully positioned to mediate between sea, landscape, and dwelling.

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The interplay between indoor and outdoor spaces at the Hayat Chalets — coupled with vertical movement across the site — deepens the spatial experience and frames multiple ways of engaging with the sea.
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The arid landscape of the Hayat Chalets is interwoven with shaded alleyways and communal courtyards, creating a measured balance between climate, movement, and shared space.
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