Offices and Retails
This office building stands in a historic part of Beirut, near Place des Martyrs, within the reconstruction plan led by SOLIDERE since the end of the war.
- Type
- Competition won
- Status
- Built
- Completed
- 2019
- Client
- Karam
- Scale
- 20,500 m²
- Program
- Offices and retail, nine floors above seven renovated basement levels
- Architect
- Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, AND Studio, collaboration
About
An open-block design lets it settle into the city around it.
The volume is divided into three parts, leaving a public garden at the center with shops along its edge. Stone clads the outer façades, and silk-screened glass lines the inner courtyard.