Cuswc – central urban solid waste collection
The urban refuse plant is a clean building, capable of coexisting with the rest of the city; it is not a structure that has to be hidden at all costs, even if most such...
Aonni mineral water plant
The Chilean Patagonia, both continental an insular, realizes the same peculiarity, distinctive and of the place: the detachment.
There is disunity, separation of what had been united; the elements live in constant change. The detachments...
Hodgdon Powder Company
Hogdgon Powder is a gunpowder manufacturing plant located in the Flint Hills of Central Kansas,
a region containing the last remaining indigenous tall grass prairies in the Midwest. The plant is located adjacent to a...
Power and heat supply plant
At the intersection of highways and canals – at the edge of the old town – in the center of
the destroyed city, a new hearts starts beating. Power and heat – elixir of life –...
The interior, the exterior, the vague
When the social scientist begins to explore the contemporary discourse by focusing on the field of architecture, he is immediately intrigued by its general structure. Architecture is almost always conceived, represented and criticized as...
Industrial still and motion blur
Albano Guatti was born in Udine, Italy, in 1950. He graduated at the University of Florence where he studied Aesthetic with Ermanno Migliorini and thought as an assistent. He is a freelance photographer and since 1978...
Beirut a city in continuous metamorphosis
The present-day Beirut is an ancestral yet contemporary city. Metaphorically speaking, the parts into which it is divided appear as tectonic plates that clash against one another without ever merging, that float in a...
An aesthetic of tension The reconstruction of Beirut between politics and planning
“Beirut is too big to be contained!” The slogan appeared on the walls of the city in the spring of 2005, during one of the most convulsed moments in the recent history of the...
Beirut, city of clusters Planned city and urban chaos
Beirut is the product of the superimposition of various settlement principles: Phoenician, Greek-Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Medieval, Ottoman and French. These are associated with different hidden alignments that have formed the evolution of its urban...
Urban management and future of a city – Interview to Nadim Abourizk
Charbel Maskineh-Nicola Santini: Which tools, strategies and structure has the Municipality for the urban management and the future development of the city of Beirut?
Nadim Abourizk: When I stepped into the Municipal Council, and being...
A short story of Beirut’s public spaces
In the attempt to read Beirut, I propose a brief overview of its public spaces through time. Since the very early stages of the city’s development, public spaces had been associated with exogenous interventions....