A street in Old Kuwait, an oil painting by Ayoub Hossein Al-Ayoub. (click on the picture to enlarge)
Houses where placed close to each other with small doors and narrow streets to maximize the shade and to help avoid the scorching sun. Kuwaitis lived near the sea coast to allow the humid sea breeze to be absorbed by the house walls and provide a cooling effect inside the house.
More about Ayoub Hossein Al-Ayoub here.
His paintings are lovely
ReplyDeletethat looks like a painting of a Mexican ranch
ReplyDeletejewaira: they are.
ReplyDeletevie: I think its the hot weather, both in mexico and kuwait. The building style and shapes are the best to handle hot weather.