Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre, Opera house in Kuwait City, Kuwait

Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre is an opera house in Kuwait City comprising four geometric buildings inspired by Islamic architecture and clad in titanium. The complex contains three theaters, concert halls, conference rooms, exhibition spaces, and a historical documentation center, all connected via underground passages.

The Amiri Diwan decided to build the centre and it opened on 31 October 2016, with the then Emir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, attending. The inauguration featured Kuwaiti performers including Abdulhussain Abdulredha and Suad Abdullah, and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sang Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Design and construction took 22 months.

The centre's name honours Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and its opening night on 31 October 2016 mixed Kuwaiti heritage song with classical music: Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Suad Abdullah and Hayat Al Fahad performed, and Andrea Bocelli sang Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and Swan Lake pieces. Today the halls stage music, theatre, film, workshops and spoken word.

Parking for 3,200 cars sits below ground behind the buildings; lifts and travelators carry visitors up to the entrance courtyards off the civic plaza. The four buildings are linked by a linear landscaped podium at the rear, and most public levels are reached from ground level upward by stairs, lifts and walkways.

The four buildings sit independently beneath a steel "jewel" envelope clad in 52,000 m² of titanium composite panels, a rainscreen over a full-span steel grid. The concrete structures inside are reached by lifts and travelators from an underground car park for 3,200 cars.