Kuwait Children’s Hospital
Kuwait City, Kuwait
A 792-bed, 683,000 m² paediatric hospital in Kuwait City, delivered at a capital value of USD 1.6bn.
792 Beds
Architectural · Design · Project Management
Buildings that work on the day they open.
The practice of Peet Kok, professional architect — twenty-six years of design and delivery leadership, from the world’s largest paediatric hospital to a single beachfront house. Based in Barrydale, working wherever the project is.
The record, in four numbers
- Design and delivery leadership
- 26 yrs
- Projects across 8 countries
- 78
- Disclosed project value
- US$14bn+
- Professional registrations
- 3
Selected work - The three projects that explain the rest.
Two world records, a live airport rebuilt without closing, and a defence campus the size of a small town.
Cape Town International Airport — Terminal 2
Cape Town, South Africa
Engineering-architectural design manager on a 25,000 m², R2.9bn new terminal at Cape Town International Airport, delivered without interrupting operations.
25,000 m² Gross floor area
Royal Saudi Air Defence Force — New Defence Forces Campus
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Schematic design oversight across a 9 km² defence campus in Jeddah, prepared for a USD 5.9bn design-and-build tender.
360+ Buildings
Peet consistently brings clarity and strong direction to everything he is involved in.
Services - Design, delivery, and an honest second opinion.
Six ways to bring twenty-six years of large-project discipline onto a project of any size.
- Architectural design. Full architectural service from pre-concept through construction issue, on work ranging from single houses to 683,000 m² hospitals.
- Design management and coordination. Holding a multi-discipline design together — architecture, structure, MEP, landscape and interiors — so the packages actually agree with each other.
- Project management and principal agency. Principal agent and delivery-director appointments: programme, contract administration, site supervision and the awkward conversations.
- Design review and technical assurance. Independent review of someone else’s design — for compliance, buildability and whether it delivers the brief it claims to.
- Healthcare and specialist facility planning. Medical planning and briefing for hospitals, clinics and specialist facilities, including Department of Health approvals.
- SANS 10400-XA energy compliance. Accredited energy-efficiency assessment and compliance routes for South African building plan approval.
Sectors - Nine sectors, eight countries, one set of questions.
Hospitals, airports, defence campuses, shopping centres, wind farms, student housing, private houses. The scale changes enormously. What makes a project work does not.
You will be working with Peet.
Not a team you meet once at the pitch and never see again. pkok consulting is one registered professional architect, and the person who reviews your drawings is the person who signs them.
- Professional Architect — PrArch 24743231
South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) - Registered Architect — ID 841150
Saudi Council of Engineers - SANS 10400-XA competency accredited
South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)
Straight answers - The three questions I get asked first.
All three are fair. Here they are answered before you have to ask them.
“Are you not too small for a project like mine?”
For twenty-six years I worked inside large multi-discipline teams — as author, as design manager, and as the reviewer who told them their submission was not good enough. That is exactly why I can tell you which parts of your project genuinely need a team of forty and which parts need one architect who has done it before. If yours needs the forty, you will hear that in the first conversation.
“Is my project too small to interest you?”
The record on this site runs from a 792-bed hospital to a set of highway bus shelters near Gouda. Both are on it because both were done properly. A project earns attention by being real, not by being large.
“You are in Barrydale. My site is not.”
Nor were any of the last eight countries. Several of the appointments on my timeline ran for years alongside work in other regions — that is why the dates overlap. Distance is a line item on a programme, not a reason to say no, and it has never once been the part of a project that went wrong.
Tell me about your project
Whether it is a brief that needs shaping, a design that needs an independent pair of eyes, or a project that needs someone to hold the whole thing together — say which one it is, and you will get a straight answer on whether I am the right person for it.