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 …
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 …