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Mussalla – Polypod
The client gifted land to build a small 500 sqm community prayer hall within a meditation garden in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon.
Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque – L.E.FT
The design for the Amir Shakib Arslan mosque in the village of Mukhtarah, Lebanon, occupies a renovated cross vaulted space with the addition of a steel structure and a plaza in front.
Estonian National Museum – Lina Ghotmeh (DGT)
STORY AND DESIGN Designing a national museum for Estonia was an extraordinary challenge given the country’s many decades of tumultuous history, a history that is recent enough to still remain in the…
D House – FaR Architects
D HOUSE revisits the notion of a dwelling through a series of interventions that recognize the site qualities and its intrinsic and distinctive geomorphology.
East Village – J.M.Bonfils and Associates
Vertical Garden influenced by a public garden located in the adjacent 1960s Electricité du Liban headquarters that is no longer accessible to the public. The aim is to reintroduce a more space-efficient…
PLOT # 1282 – Bernard Khoury
Plot # 1282 is a residential project located on the northern periphery of Beirut in the proximity of one of the city’s abandoned and unused railway terminals, military barracks, leftovers of agricultural…
H.S. House – Sahel Al Hiyari Architects
The site is located in the growing suburb of Dabouq to the north of Amman, renowned for its wealth of native oaks. It is a single family house built on a total…
Beirut Terraces – Herzog & de Meuron
Article as appeared on Dezeen.com by Jessica Mairs on 4 April 2017. Staggered floor plates and set-back glazing create large planted terraces around this 119-metre tower by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, which overlooks Beirut’s marina.
St. Elie Church – Maroun Lahoud
The project revolves around two squares and entails St. Elie Church and a semi-sunken base. The project came about by celebrating the elements of nature. Radiant with its white bush hammered stone cladding,…
USJ Campus de L’Innovation et du Sport – 109 Architectes
Located on what was previously known as the Beirut Green Line, this new campus takes a contextual approach, integrating physically, culturally, and historically with Beirut’s urban tissue.
The Courtowers – Hashim Sarkis Studios
The project consists of four new single-family houses on the coast of Aamchit, Lebanon as well as the rehabilitation of the existing landscape and old houses.
Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winners – 2016
Al-Ain, UAE, 3 October 2016 – The winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced October 4th in a ceremony in Al-Ain. The venue for the winners’ ceremony, the Al Jahili…
Byblos Town Hall – Hashim Sarkis Studios
Hashim Sarkis Studios was awarded the commission of the new Byblos Town Hall after an anonymous open competition. Byblos, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a World…
New Lighting for Beirut National Museum – GM Architects
GM Architects, based in Beirut and Abu Dhabi, created an enhanced lighting display for the exterior facade of the Beirut National Museum. Galal Mahmoud, the founder of GM Architects, created
Casa-Port New Railway Station – Aga Khan Award for Architecture Finalist
Casa-Port New Railway Station – Casablanca, Morocco This transport hub, designed to anticipate 25 million passenger trips per year in the future, comprises a large passenger hall opening onto a wide square to…
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge – Aga Khan Award for Architecture Finalist
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge – Tehran, Iran The architects first conceived the two-to-three level, 270-metre-long curved pedestrian bridge of varying width, a complex steel structure featuring a dynamic three-dimensional truss with two continuous deck…
King Fahad National Library – Aga Khan Award for Architecture Finalist
King Fahad National Library – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia The cuboid shape of the new building surrounds the old 1980s library building on all sides, thus giving the National Library a new appearance in…
Guelmim School of Technology – Aga Khan Award for Architecture Finalist
Guelmim School of Technology – Guelmim, Morocco Situated in Guelmin, 200 kilometres south of Agadir and known as the “door of the Sahara”, the School was conceived in line with a policy of…
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation – Aga Khan Award for Architecture Finalist
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation – Ajloun, Jordan The project for an Academy was originally proposed to be on a site inside a nature conservancy reserve, but the architect convinced the client to…
Issam Fares Institute – Aga Khan Award for Architecture Finalist
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs – Beirut, Lebanon The American University of Beirut (AUB) held an invited competition for the design of a structure to accommodate a modern-day think…