L.E.FT has been working with developers Majid al Futtaim & Société Joseph G. Khoury et Fils on the design of the first Business Park in Lebanon, located in the new waterfront development of Dbayeh, 20 minutes from Beirut.

According to L.E.FT’s press release statement: “The Business Park is a unique opportunity to build a pioneering environment where different businesses can strive in a collaborative and communal urban space. Ideally located just 10 kilometers outside the city center, along the 700 Berth Marina overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, it offers both proximity and seclusion to sustain a healthy work climate. The Marina itself is the largest in the region and the 193,000 m2 of adjacent reclaimed land presents a distinct opportunity within metropolitan Beirut to deliver a genuine mixed use development and create a new multi-use district.

The Business Park consists of 12 Grade A office buildings sharing a car-free/ pedestrian only ground plane with a series of open landscaped plazas and a ground floor that offers a multitude of office related retail experiences.”

About:
L.E.FT is a NYC-based design collective comprised of architects Makram el Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine. Established in New York in 2001 .The firm has been recognized internationally with numerous awards, publications and exhibitions for quality and excellence in design. The partners combine their architectural practice with research projects they conduct in the form of studios at several universities in the U.S. including Yale, MIT, UPenn, Cornell University and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The firm is the recipient of the prestigious 2002 Young Architects Award and 2010 Emerging Voices from the Architectural League of New York, and a finalist for MoMA’s 2009 Young Architects Program, and has been selected as the 2010 Design Vanguard by the Architectural Record Magazine and Finalist for the 2010 Iakov Chernikhov Prize.