Category / urban design
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.
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…
On the Architecture of Alejandro Aravena – Hashim Sarkis
It’s Elementary (Not) Much of the work of Alejandro Aravena, whether designed alone or with the group Elemental, embodies a eureka moment, a moment where after a careful interrogation of the program…
Ankara Office Tower – AW
The Ankara Office Tower is a fourteen-story speculative office building designed to serve local and international high-tech companies interested in capitalizing on the proximity of nearby educational and research institutes.
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,
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…