Beirut marina & town quay
The Beirut Marina building, by Steven Holl Architects with L.E.FT, takes its shape from strata and layers in forking vectors. Like the ancient beach that was once the site, the planar lapping waves of the sea inspire striated spaces in horizontal layer …
The landmark
In Beirut, a city spanning several millennia, history is lost in the mists of time: archaeological sites set our minds roaming, ancient history is eroded, softened; recent history is still laying bare its scars and endeavouring to put its grief to rest …
Beirut terraces
Site: The design of Beirut Terraces was quite literally influenced by the layers of the city’s rich and tumultuous history. It is a history now also marked by inescapable traces of an eventful present. For generations to come, the people of Beirut will …
Koukjian jewelry
Koukjian is a jewelry store in central Beirut. The existing site was long and narrow, so taking advantage of these conditions, we created on elongated central linear space. Reflecting the use of the space, a jewelry store, we wanted to create an interi …
Original lighting products interview to .PSLAB
Katia Carlucci: .PSLAB was founded in 2004 in Beirut and now a team of approximately 100 people is working worldwide wwith bases in Europe and in the Middle East. How did this change happen? .PSLAB: We offer a personalized service and have spread globa …
Beirut multidentity
What is Beirut? What is the soul of this city, apparently so indecipherable, aggressive and fragmented, and yet dangerously attractive like a magnetic zone? Like a Tarkovskian Stalker, the urban explorer begins his reconnaissance of the city. A descrip …
area 119 – gaetano pesce
presentazione/introduction Going against the current testo Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial The noise of time Silvana Annicchiarico letture critiche/critical lectures The Pesce mode / Michael Sorkin The design of …
Going against the current
To exercise the profession and art that Gaetano Pesce makes his livelihood from, and to live it to the fullest, takes a visionary and thus revolutionary ability that is a combination between the craftsman’s pragmatism and the artist’s poetic imaginatio …
The noise of time
If asked to suggest a figure capable of summarizing, synthetically and paradigmatically, the work of Gaetano Pesce, I would not hesitate: I would say the oxymoron. The coexistence of opposites. All the design activities of Gaetano Pesce – whether on th …