USJ campus de l’innovation et du sport
This new campus takes a contextual approach, integrating physically, culturally, and historically with Beirut’s urban tissue. Conceptually an urban block with sculpted voids, the building’s hollow spaces define six autonomous blocks and construct multi …
Suliman S. Olayan school of business
Selected in an international invited competition, the Olayan School of Business results from focused attention on its program, the production and the transmission of knowledge, the quality of its interior life, and the specific particularities of the s …
Beirut exhibition center
Set in the new landfill area of downtown Beirut, the center is the first structure dedicated to contemporary art in the waterfront development. With a constantly shifting context at the urban scale setting a new skyline for the city, and constantly shi …
Pier 7 club
Pier 7 is an outdoor night club on the Dora seaside. It is the first investment of its kind in this highly industrial and neglected area of the greater Beirut metropolis. Its master plan was envisioned as a work of land art, with a potential of eventua …
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 a melting pot of cultures and religions …
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 level façade of the ground floor allows for both the pedestrian buil …
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 old public stair passage linking Achrafieh Street …
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 of memory was to me an extremel …
S-project
We work under a special circumstance for this project: a house extension for a private lot in the suburban Beirut, where nature tends to disappear. These Mountains’ sides overlooking Beirut coast ravaged by hazardous construction during war. Within thi …
T-project
Within a huge existing pine forest environment, T-project is a villa situated on a considerably sloping rocky site naturally leveled framing a superb perspective of green mountains and Beirut city scape. The Villa communicates explicitly with this desc …