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Immeuble de l'Union
Immeuble de l'Union

Renovation as "reprise" for the 1952 masterpiece by Antoun Tabet and Lucien Cavro.

Ongoing.

Iyamed
Iyamed

Transforming a derelict structure in Chiah into a progressive pharmaceutical office building requires a sharp restraint.

Unbuilt.

Zahri Terrace
Zahri Terrace

How to return to Deir el Qamar after three generations, on three terraces.

Ongoing.

Kiev Loft 1970
Kiev Loft 1970

In Kiev, amidst the remnants of a brutal modernity, and a war, how to create a super contemporary and cinematic loft on a rooftop?

Unbuilt.

Vision from Beirut
Vision from Beirut

Karim Nader invites Julien Lanoo to walk in Beirut. Looking at the present in analogue black and white, they envision a tangible future.

Voliera
Voliera

Curinga 2024, how does an Imperial Era Thermæ in ruins live a second life while embracing values of ecology? An evanescent shed for butterflies to bathe in while humans use the outdoor natural pool.

Competition Entry.

Daman 26 Dreams
Daman 26 Dreams

Jacques and Mila move to Dubai. Their world is natural, contemporary but also genuinely Lebanese. They make a cocoon for themselves on Daman 26th with a view to the palm grove below.

Built.

Over the Clouds
Over the Clouds

On the rocky landscape in Zaarour by the valley, the clouds come down very low. Architecture should cut through it, likes blades of a Samurai.

Unbuilt.

Retour à Beyrouth
Retour à Beyrouth

Her glam, his industrial streak, or how to return to Rue du Liban to make a contemporary living.

Built.

Taste of Cherry
Taste of Cherry

Wael and his family return to where his father’s birth place to enjoy nature, the cliffside view and pick-up cherries.

Ongoing.

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MIXED-USE

ALL PROJECTS
Immeuble de l'Union
Immeuble de l'Union

Renovation as "reprise" for the 1952 masterpiece by Antoun Tabet and Lucien Cavro.

Ongoing.

A Tower of Earth
A Tower of Earth

Riyadh is in transition. An office tower in the 2020s builds on the earth and looks towards a hopeful future.

Unbuilt.

Fortress of Love
Fortress of Love

Based on a fictive novel entitled “The Monk and the Prince,” the story of returning to the roots in Hasbaya, across generations.

Unbuilt.

Aurora Winemakers
Aurora Winemakers

On a site steeped with history in Kfarchleimen, winemakers of the second generation extend their vineyards, build their winery and expand into a venue.

Competition. (Finalist)

La Tour
La Tour

Reminiscing Jaques Tati, Eileen Grey and Erich Mendelsohn, a second life for the 1949 modernist tower by Edgard Sisto in Caracas, Beirut.

Ongoing.

Sugar Lane
Sugar Lane

A derelict sugar refinery on the seaside highway seeks a new life as a design hub.

Unbuilt.

The Persian Complex
The Persian Complex

How to experiment with the Persian tradition, architecture and the Iranian art of landscape as programmatic and visual interweaving, by the knot-count.

Unbuilt.

Silver Rock
Silver Rock

Where the famous Zuma rock of Nigeria finds itself interpreted into a mixed-used urban proposal.

Unbuilt.

Triade
Triade

On the iconic Tabaris corner site, Triade redefines the Beiruti mixed-used tower typology by representing its multi-layers in three distinct and complementary readings. 

Competition. (1st Prize)

Graham Steps
Graham Steps

Architecture as manifesto, Graham Steps invades its context cinematically and reinterprets it inward.

Unbuilt.

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CULTURAL

Featured
Voliera
Voliera

Curinga 2024, how does an Imperial Era Thermæ in ruins live a second life while embracing values of ecology? An evanescent shed for butterflies to bathe in while humans use the outdoor natural pool.

Competition Entry.

Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura

For its first venture in Saudi Arabia, Art Jameel is seeking an avant-garde cinema theater. Camera Obscura is our experimental proposal on architecture and the cinematic across time and space.

Competition. (3rd Prize)

The Crystal Fortress
The Crystal Fortress

Transcending its painful past, the Tauras Hilltop in Vilnius becomes the stage for a contemporary fortress of crystal in celebration of music, nature and national freedom.

Competition.

Reviving NPAK
Reviving NPAK

NPAK is a contemporary art institution in Yerevan, Armenia in need for an overhaul. Our shortlisted competition entry demonstrates how to awaken the bronze giant.

Competition. (Shortlisted)

Centroplex
Centroplex

Centroplex, the cineplex of Centro Mall, invites the spectators to notice the creation of their own cinema.  

Ongoing.

Ciurlionis Concert Center
Ciurlionis Concert Center

A concert center in homage to a polymath vibes at the rhythms of a riverside park, an island nearby and the city Kaunas.

Competition.

BCD Cineplex
BCD Cineplex

A cineplex for Beirut cannot be a mere venue. It has to be a cinematic event in itself, at the image of the city that adopts it. 

Unbuilt.

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INSTITUTIONAL

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10 Schools Repair
10 Schools Repair

As part of the relief efforts for rebuilding Beirut, the studio teams up with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation to repair 10 schools in Beirut.

Built.

Banque du Liban CMA
Banque du Liban CMA

Saving the BDL-CMA building from demolition engages issues of modernity and security in the Beiruti urban context.

Built.

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TRK Lab

Right in the heart of Mkalles, the story of the metamorphosis of a 'non-descript' 'neutral' building into a design hub.

Competition. (2nd Prize)

Sequential Lego model
NAARCH

Playing with the toy that remains in the unconscious of every Danish architect to be, the project seeks to create a new programmatic interplay.

Competition.

Varna Public Library
Varna Public Library

Varna Public Library is a friendly landmark in evanescence. Behind its translucent facade, it reveals an urban living room with windows towards the black sea.

Competition.

Naqoura Public School
Naqoura Public School

Initiated by the NGO Bahr Loubnan, Naqoura Public School is a three month speedy and economical transformation into a zero energy vibrant learning environment.

Built.

MY Municipality
MY Municipality

Or how to integrate in a pine forest while still answering the expectations of a governmental institution.

Competition.

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HOSPITALITY

Featured
Zahri Terrace
Zahri Terrace

How to return to Deir el Qamar after three generations, on three terraces.

Ongoing.

Over the Clouds
Over the Clouds

On the rocky landscape in Zaarour by the valley, the clouds come down very low. Architecture should cut through it, likes blades of a Samurai.

Unbuilt.

Taste of Cherry
Taste of Cherry

Wael and his family return to where his father’s birth place to enjoy nature, the cliffside view and pick-up cherries.

Ongoing.

Le 1935
Le 1935

How to operate an architectural kintsugi on 1935 Beirut.

Unbuilt.

Salt Lands
Salt Lands

Beach residences and hotel in salt-like sculptures of white concrete layer in a landscape of cypresses, olive trees and pink grasses.

Competition. (Shortlisted)

Badalodge
Badalodge

Located in Bamako nearby the flooding river Niger, Badalodge is a resort inspired from the vernacular where suspended rooms on wooden stilts occasionally transforms into insular cabins.

Competition. (1st Prize)

Via Mare
Via Mare

Stratified sand-like slabs ripple once again over the mediterranean to benefit once again from the wonderful exposure. 

Competition. (Shortlisted)

Ahlam Country Club
Ahlam Country Club

Or how to make a dome afloat above a rocky landscape, the central landmark of Ahlam Country Club in Kfardebiane, Lebanon.

Competition. (1st Prize)

Gemmayze Lighthouse
Gemmayze Lighthouse

Where a 1940 Beiruti ‘yellow building’ finds a new life as an iconic boutique hotel on the stairs of saint Nicholas in Gemmayze.

Unbuilt.

Pier 7
Pier 7

Arena as entertainment in a context that's at once industrial and by the sea, Pier 7 is the 'terminal' destination for clubbing.

Built.

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HOUSE

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The Silent House
HOUSE
The Silent House
HOUSE

Living in the desert brings its own colors, its earthiness and its evanescent mystery.

Ongoing.

HOUSE
Ski In
HOUSE
Ski In
HOUSE

How to make an ode to the slope in the mountains of Lebanon.

Unbuilt.

HOUSE
Case Study in Bakish
HOUSE
Case Study in Bakish
HOUSE

Once again in greys, a very small house becomes three.

Ongoing.

HOUSE
Fields of Gold
HOUSE
Fields of Gold
HOUSE

How to retreat in a field of mimosas while looking at the wondrous valleys and mountains of Tyre in the south of Lebanon.

Unbuilt.

HOUSE
Drawn in a Triangle
HOUSE
Drawn in a Triangle
HOUSE

A House in Faqra experiments with the possibility of polar opposition: light/heavy, present/absent, low-tech/high-tech, straight/oblique.

Unbuilt.

HOUSE
A Stone House
HOUSE
A Stone House
HOUSE

Or how to make a simple house in Kahlouniyeh, in stone and glass, radically.

Ongoing.

HOUSE
HOUSEMUSEUM
HOUSE
HOUSEMUSEUM
HOUSE

A new name for an inside-out experience of nature and art appreciation.

Unbuilt.

HOUSE
Chalet 4H
HOUSE
Chalet 4H
HOUSE

4 H columns to make a chalet afloat.

Ongoing.

HOUSE
La Maison Ivoire
HOUSE
La Maison Ivoire
HOUSE

On an exact point above the equator, an “impluvium” house to circumbulate around the sun and to reminisce the iconic modernism of the Hôtel Ivoire nearby.

Built.

HOUSE
The Orchard
HOUSE
The Orchard
HOUSE

Or how to return to the homeland to dwell in the fruitful south of Lebanon.

Ongoing.

HOUSE
On the Rocks
HOUSE
On the Rocks
HOUSE

It is on and within shades of natural and man-made greys that he seeks to retreat.

Built.

HOUSE
The Peak
HOUSE
The Peak
HOUSE

On a steep site with red rocks, a house reaches a new height, in rust concrete, stone and desert-like landscape.

Unbuilt.

HOUSE
Generations
HOUSE
Generations
HOUSE

In Kfifan, a house multi-layers from generation to generation. It now wants to extend its life by looking forward.

Unbuilt.

HOUSE
Around an Acacia
HOUSE
Around an Acacia
HOUSE

The Jorejick family in Getamock Tanzania is looking for a home. To make a house as an embrace, they draw two L’s in a circle around an Acacia tree.

Competition. (Shortlisted)

HOUSE
The Glass House
HOUSE
The Glass House
HOUSE

Confronted with the vernacular context of the rural, the glass house seeks a new expression in a contradictory hybrid of high and low-technologies.

Built.

HOUSE
House in Siegritz
HOUSE
House in Siegritz
HOUSE

Or how to grow a Lebanese family in a traditional German village.

Unbuilt.

HOUSE
The Long House
HOUSE
The Long House
HOUSE

A pine forest in Baabdat seeks its natural counterpart: a villa as treehouse. 

Unbuilt.

HOUSE
Gazebo House
HOUSE
Gazebo House
HOUSE

Karim Nader Studio teams up with Dalal Steel to reinvent the Lebanese rural house through affordable prefabrication and ecological strategies.

Unbuilt.

HOUSE
Villa Kali
HOUSE
Villa Kali
HOUSE

The Khalils dream of a new house. They call it Villa Kali. Located by a wonderful rock formation in Mounsef, the house interprets the waves, the pebbles and the sky while it invites the horizon. 

Built.

HOUSE
Beit Salwa
HOUSE
Beit Salwa
HOUSE

Two brothers move back to Ghosta for the week-ends. They see it as the opportunity to recompose a fragment of the village. 

Built.

HOUSE
House in Roumieh
HOUSE
House in Roumieh
HOUSE

Two sisters and a brother share the family plot where the old sandstone house remains. As their personalities unfold, the house takes multiple directions around the one garden.

Built.

HOUSE
On the Horizon
HOUSE
On the Horizon
HOUSE

Disguised as a temporary renovation, steel rhythm and wood decking compose the music of a client's dream for a week-end seaside retreat. 

Built.

HOUSE
Tahan Villa
HOUSE
Tahan Villa
HOUSE

The typical village house with its stone cladding and red pitch tiled roof, is here radically reinterpreted in a suspended volume of sliding panels and terra-cotta pergola.

Built.

HOUSE
Maison Hage
HOUSE
Maison Hage
HOUSE

Gaëlle dreams of a house or the attempt of a ‘Ain el Saadeh à la japonaise.’

Unbuilt.

HOUSE

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COMMERCIAL

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Iyamed
Iyamed

Transforming a derelict structure in Chiah into a progressive pharmaceutical office building requires a sharp restraint.

Unbuilt.

The Light Box
The Light Box

As there is light, there is shadow. Lightbox returns to Pasteur street in Beirut.

Built.

La Montre
La Montre

Yehya sells watches and jewelry. The moving to a new location in Verdun is the occasion to reflect on notions of time, spatial sequence and the cinematic.

Built.

Mawad - The Art of Matter
Mawad - The Art of Matter

Building upon ruins, Mawad relocates post-blast nearby the Beirut port.

Built.

Al Shati' Mall
Al Shati' Mall

Horizontal gardens and ethereal suspended terraces compose the music of this mall with a soul on the eastern shore of Dammam.

Competition.

NINETEEN84
NINETEEN84

Office by day, installation by night, the NINETEEN84 headquarters play at doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde.

Built.

The Playoffice
The Playoffice

A forward looking insurance company wishes to enhance its employees daily routine in fitness, health, entertainment and culture. 

Built.

Kore
Kore

Teaming up with the Kore team, we redesign their commercial and working spaces in aquatic fluidity of form, circulation and program. 

Built.

Pharmacie du Quartier
Pharmacie du Quartier

A pharmacist with a vision seeks to revolutionize the pharmacy experience. Escaping the clinical, he wants to humanize.

Built.

Chiah 765
Chiah 765

An office building with an aluminum double skin opens up radically towards the city and mountain views while contradicting the expectations of the context. 

Built.

Office Park
Office Park

Fertile agricultural land by the Beirut river seeks to become an office park that redefines the periurban.

Competition. (1st Prize)

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Tabbah

After Baudrillard, de la séduction.

Unbuilt.

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INDUSTRIAL

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The Glass Factory
The Glass Factory

In the region of the Chouf a Glass Factory is surmounted with aluminum in blues like the sky, and it comes in several shades.

Ongoing.

GAF & CO.
GAF & CO.

Seeking to produce a remarkable environment for natural stones to be exhibited, GAF&CO transform their showroom into a museum-like environment where stone will not tile any floor…

Built.

Clos du Phoenix
Clos du Phoenix

Superimposed on an old peasant's house, the winery makes structure afloat while the tasting terrace extends all the way to the Mediterranean.

Built.

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RESIDENTIAL

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Terra 8
Terra 8

How do we inhabit the slope of the Metn in Lebanon in the 2020s? Terra 8 creates a contemporary take on such a village life in nature.

Competition. (2nd Prize)

Alwadad
Alwadad

One of the last old plots of Ashrafieh is destined to breathe a new life while providing dwelling for the family that always owned it and newcomers from the growing context. 

Unbuilt.

Gemstones
Gemstones

From prehistory to Roman times Faqra rocks have hidden precious gems; a metaphor for living closer to nature in a spectacular environment.

Competition. (Shortlisted)

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APARTMENT

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Kiev Loft 1970
Kiev Loft 1970

In Kiev, amidst the remnants of a brutal modernity, and a war, how to create a super contemporary and cinematic loft on a rooftop?

Unbuilt.

Daman 26 Dreams
Daman 26 Dreams

Jacques and Mila move to Dubai. Their world is natural, contemporary but also genuinely Lebanese. They make a cocoon for themselves on Daman 26th with a view to the palm grove below.

Built.

Retour à Beyrouth
Retour à Beyrouth

Her glam, his industrial streak, or how to return to Rue du Liban to make a contemporary living.

Built.

Gemini House
Gemini House

An apartment as an autobiography, the Gemini House is split in two to reminisce its old uses while it paves the way for a new potential.

Built.

Sursock 14ème
Sursock 14ème

Or how to resurrect an apartment by the Beirut port through emotional memory and a collection of family antiques.

Built.

Maison de Poupée
Maison de Poupée

Moving in Beirut as the stage-set for living within miniature doll houses

Unbuilt.

Saifi Penthouse
Saifi Penthouse

Returning from his Amchit abode, he now seeks to transform his Saifi duplex into an urban villa with multi-directional views and vertical transparency.

Built.

Anthony
Anthony

With cubist references and a modernist streak, Anthony draws his apartment in contemporary texture and awaited darkness.

Built.

34, Quai Louis Blériot
34, Quai Louis Blériot

To make up a Parisian week-end living, a Lebanese couple and their guests dwell around a hybrid collection of objects.

Built.

Lana
Lana

As she waits for her third baby, she revisits her parents' apartment in lightness, purity and zen. 

Built.

Riachy Residence
Riachy Residence

A colorful family overhauls their living space, in openness and fluidity.

Built.

A Sioufi Memoir
A Sioufi Memoir

An 1960s apartment in Sioufi gets renovated with a subtle concern for the memory of the period.

Built.

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DESIGN

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Vision from Beirut
Vision from Beirut

Karim Nader invites Julien Lanoo to walk in Beirut. Looking at the present in analogue black and white, they envision a tangible future.

Le Cèdre Alchimiste
Le Cèdre Alchimiste

Produced for Green Cedar Lebanon 2020, Le Cèdre Alchimiste is a large glass that symbolizes the cedar mythology in an alchemy from ashes to enlightenment.

Built.

The Black Vault
The Black Vault

Architecture in the place of ruin, a family burial in a Christian cemetery of Beirut revisits tombstone as concept while it opens as a monumental steel doorway.

Built.

The House of Small
The House of Small

The house presented at the Beirut Design Fair 2018 is not a house. It is the model of a house at scale 1/1.

Built.

The Nocturne Majlis
The Nocturne Majlis

The Art of Dining 2018: sitting in tradition within our contemporary neuroses.

Built.

The Tower of Winds
The Tower of Winds

Or how to transform Beirut scaffolds into a vertical garden experience.

Unbuilt.

Drifting Lands
Drifting Lands

Six tables in high-performance concrete float on solid brass legs to commemorate a painful event. 

Built.

Archizen
Archizen

Japanese calligraphy drips as wallpaper for an archizen space by Bowyadesign.

Built.

The Glass Pavilion
The Glass Pavilion

Beirut reminisces the French mandate at the rooftop of a 1950s yellow building on Rue du Liban.

Unbuilt.

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URBAN

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The Invisible Piacenza
The Invisible Piacenza

In homage to Calvino, a teacher and his 29 students return to Piacenza virtually to invent a prospective ecological future for the city on potents ruins of the past.

Parkway 280
Parkway 280

A abandoned highway in ruins in San Francisco renews itself as a public park with multiple stops.

Competition.

East Darling
East Darling

East Darling Harbour is the story of an abandoned concrete platform that seeks to stitch itself back onto the urban and natural fabric that gave birth to it in the first place.

Competition.