Shoreline walk / Zeytouneh square
The ‘Shoreline Walk’ is a sequence of connected spaces which form part of the reconstruction of the Beirut city centre. The area suffered physically and emotionally during the 1975‒1991 Civil War. Beirut was once...
Plot # 183
The Rmeil 183 residential building is located on a 247 m² land on lot #183 in a quiet residential area of Rmeil. The 18 m wide western edge faces Chafik el Mouayiad Street.
The street...
Plot # 893
The Achrafieh 893 Residential building is located on a 1054 square-meter land situated on Plot # 893 in a high end residential area of Achrafieh, Beirut. The project runs parallel to Montée Barakat, an...
Beyond war fetishism The lyrism of performative architecture a dialogue with Bernard Khoury
Beirut and Memory
Nicola Santini: What do you think is the role of architecture in the recovery or mystification of memory in Beirut and what role your architecture plays in this perspective?
Bernard Khoury: The question...
Beirut marina & town quay
The Beirut Marina building, by Steven Holl Architects with L.E.FT, takes its shape from strata and layers in forking vectors. Like the ancient beach that was once the site, the planar lapping waves of the...
The landmark
In Beirut, a city spanning several millennia, history is lost in the mists of time: archaeological sites set our minds roaming, ancient history is eroded, softened; recent history is still laying bare its scars...
Beirut terraces
Site: The design of Beirut Terraces was quite literally influenced by the layers of the city’s rich and tumultuous history. It is a history now also marked by inescapable traces of an eventful present....
Koukjian jewelry
Koukjian is a jewelry store in central Beirut. The existing site was long and narrow, so taking advantage of these conditions, we created on elongated central linear space. Reflecting the use of the space,...
Original lighting products interview to .PSLAB
Katia Carlucci: .PSLAB was founded in 2004 in Beirut and now a team of approximately 100 people is working worldwide wwith bases in Europe and in the Middle East. How did this change happen?
.PSLAB:...
Beirut multidentity
What is Beirut? What is the soul of this city, apparently so indecipherable, aggressive and fragmented, and yet dangerously attractive like a magnetic zone? Like a Tarkovskian Stalker, the urban explorer begins his reconnaissance of...