Posted By
Najib
Feb 12, 2017 07:56
Henri is an architecture enthusiast and was previously featured in an AP report after he built his Batroun house from beautiful pieces of 45 destroyed houses in Beirut. He spent two years collecting pieces from these houses and it took five years to complete the house which consists of two large floors. Lucien turned the house in Batroun into a museum to allow others to see his work and appreciate Beirut's rich architectural fabric. In…
Posted By
Najib
Jan 05, 2017 09:23
If you are wondering why there are so many buildings at risk of crumbling in Lebanon, just watch this video. The "funny" part is that they are filming it as if it's something cool to watch. I hope someone investigates where this incident took place and who was the engineer or the real estate company behind it. Unfortunately, despite the fact that we have way too many civil engineers in Lebanon, there are rarely any…
Architecture
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Make sure to follow my adventures on [Instagram]. I’ve heard a lot of people talk about the Silk Museum, which dates back to 1792, in the Lebanese village of Bsous but few of them mention ...
Architecture
6 years ago
The US$1 million Aga Khan Award for Architecture is considered to be one of the most important awards in the field and is awarded every three years to projects that “are judged to set new ...
Architecture
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Le Grand Théâtre de Beirut or Beirut’s Grand Theater is one of the last remaining relics of pre-war Beirut. This landmark building was built in the late 1930s and was a venue for performances of ...
Architecture
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Most of us have never been to the Presidential Palace and know little about it. The only thing we know is that we’ve been without a president up until Michel Aoun got elected on Monday ...
Architecture
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I wrote back in April 2016 that there were talks about opening a new museum of Modern and contemporary Lebanese art in central Beirut by 2020 and that Tony Salamé (Aishti), Zaha Hadid (who unfortunately ...
Architecture
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Today marked the opening of the Amir Shakib Arslan mosque in Mukhtarah. The new progressive look was designed by L.E.FT arhictects led by Makram el Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine. I loved the design and the ...
Architecture
6 years ago
The New York Times published a list on the World’s coolest, Most Cultured New Malls and featured the new Aishti contemporary museum that opened back in October 2015. I’ve been to that new complex a ...
Architecture
6 years ago
Netherlands-based architects Open Platform for Architecture (OPA) are building a cliff residence in Faqra for Demco Properties’s CEO Alex Demirdjian. The 2,906 square feet residence should be completed by 2018. Looking at OPA’s website, the ...
