Urban and metropolitan area: a city of cities
The municipality of Beirut comprises twelve districts that together occupy an area of about 100 kmq; the urban tissue continues without breaks southwards and eastwards, with the municipalities of the metropolitan area, along the directrix of the road t …
Zokak el-Blat: a neighborhood of contrasts
This research is part of a bigger monitoring project that was initiated by MAJAL Academic Urban Observatory (IUA, ALBA, University Of Balamand) in 2010, in the context of its research activities on Beirut’s reconstruction and urban development, with th …
Bourj-Hammoud district
The Bourj-Hammoud district is the geographical extension of Beirut City along the Mediterranean coastline; it constitutes the immediate eastern suburb of the capital by the seaside separated from it by the Beirut River, and the northern stretch of the …
Platinum tower
photo by Pietro Savorelli In the Beirut skyline cluttered with lifeless concrete shells, the Platinum Tower avoids commercial pastiche gimmicks and bravura one-liners, offering instead a sober, poised solution to the difficult problem of a luxury high- …
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 …