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Built in 1931 as a gift to the British government, this building was then occupied by Colonel Harold Dickson and became the center of British politics in Kuwait. When Kuwait became an independent state in 1961, the British simply turned the complex into their embassy. Somehow it managed to survive in tact through the Gulf War and is one of only a few examples of architecture from before that war. The building was designed in the manner of many other colonial British India buildings, so it does not reflect Kuwaiti architecture but it does reflect on the long history of western influence in Kuwait.