The basic approach is to eliminate the existing layout of the apartment and to focus on intensifying its potentials. The NM apartment enjoys unique views on to the Mediterranean sea from one side and the dense fabric of the Gemayze district from the other, which we enhanced by opening up the facades to allow total [...]
Paul Kaloustian Architect has recently completed a jewelry store in the center of Beirut for a renowned artist/jeweler based in beirut/NYC called Rami Abboud. In the design process, we focused on the visitor’s experience, we want to create a feeling rather than a materialized design for retail. Paul Kaloustian The jewelry pieces created by Rami [...]
Designed by Paul Kaloustian Architect, the IN/OUT showroom is located on a first floor of an office building in Beirut and houses the Polyform furniture brand as well as theVarena kitchens. The entry is conceived as a exterior ramp that leads directly into the showroom thus disconnecting it from the building. The central element of [...]
Lebanon-based design firm .PSLAB recently has completed the Iconic Rooftop Bar in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon. They have intervened on the project by creating and manufacturing custom lighting products, giving the space a distinctive new mood. .PSLAB design and manufacture bold custom products for reinvention of one of Beirut’s most famous clubs Three spatial [...]
3Beirut – the first project designed by Foster + Partners to break ground in Lebanon – is revealed on 9 June. Responding directly to the site and culture of Beirut, the scheme will create a sustainable residential and retail development of international quality. The development will also strengthen Beirut’s role as a centre for tourism, [...]
Lebanon-based design firm .PSLAB beirut recently has completed the MYBAR in Beirut, Lebanon. A bar/restaurant whose space is functionally divided into 3 areas; an entrance corridor, a drinking area, and a dining area. The entrance corridor leads to the drinking area which is separated from the dining area by an irregular shaped staircase extending from [...]
The H Chalet by Nabil Gholam architects was designed to tuck into the steep landscape of Faqra Club, Mount Lebanon, the H Chalet is a vacation home designed to cater for a family of four, with a slight accent to the parent’s activities. Subtle games of hiding, exposing, gazing and peeking shape the dynamics of [...]
Skygate is the Residential project designed by Lebanon-based architectural practice Nabil Gholam architects. The seducing aspect of Beirut’s juxtaposing architecture, of past and present, traditional and modern creativity sets the milieu for the Skygate development. Located on a hilly promontory of Ashrafieh, Skygate provocatively completes what appears as an urban wall rising in this central [...]
Located in the iconic night life district of Beirut, the MYU bar/restaurant inhabits an old small liquor factory. The design concept is based on creating 2 separate spaces of bar and restaurant defined by 2 vaults different in scale. These vaults which form a room whithin a room are made of stretch black fabric that [...]
Paul Kaloustian is an architect based in Beirut, Lebanon. He is a graduate from the GSD harvard and worked for Herzog and de Meuron. He has designed his own architectural practice office and the Chammas Chalet in Lebanon. + Project 1 Project: Paul Kaloustian architect office Location: Beirut, Lebanon Area: 300m2 The new location of [...]
Lebanon-based design firm .PSLAB beirut recently has completed the Burgundy wine bar/restaurant in Beirut, Lebanon. + Project description courtesy of .PSLAB beirut A lighting project for a wine bar/restaurant having a substructure of wooden arched beams cutting through a wire mesh covering the ceiling. The setting of the space underneath the substructure is functionally divided [...]
Lebanon-based design firm .PSLAB beirut recently has completed the Saradar Private Offices in Beirut- Lebanon. + Press release courtesy of .PSLAB beirut Offices made up of three main double volume spaces featuring high glass facades onto the building central atrium; two symmetrical and identical entrances connected by a conference room. We unified these spaces in [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
