Category / Lebanon
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…
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,…
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.
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
First Business Park in Lebanon – L.E.FT
L.E.FT has been working with developers Majid al Futtaim & Société Joseph G. Khoury et Fils on the design
Devastated by Laissez-faire – Executive Magazine
If Michel Ecochard were alive today to see his beloved Beirut, he would arguably want to drop dead on the spot. Beginning in the 1930s, the French architect and urban planner worked…
The Paradox of Contextuality in a Levantine World – Galal Mahmoud
As a territory that has historically been influenced by many civilizations, Beirut has evolved as a crucible of difference, continuously assimilating foreign influences into its vernacular. Its fabric, an amalgamation of arrangements
GMA’s Museum of Civilizations At The 2014 Venice Biennale
GM Architects, founded by Galal Mahmoud, the sole Lebanese architecture and design firm taking part in the 2014 Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition,
Lebanese Architects To Head MIT, Columbia and Miami’s…
Not bad for a small Country. Three practicing Lebanese architects to head three schools of architecture for the coming years. Rodolphe el-Khoury was named the new dean of the University of Miami…
The Prototype Urban Conflict Resolver – Andrew Buck
A New Map of the World creates a new way of viewing the world, not just a collection of geographical and political boundaries, but a method of representing issues critical to the global environment.…
op-ed: Social Activism + Architecture – Lama Sfeir
Architecture is the continuous search through history, culture and society of a common ground. I believe that an ideal society is based on a common language of respect and understanding of the…
Voices From Shatila – Stefanos Gkougkoustamos
Dissecting The Urban Apparatus of Beirut’s Southern Suburbs “Without encountering any obstacles, the eye spontaneously embraces the most heterogeneous situations, and this places every passer-by in the situation of the voyeur. In…