Fact Sheet Category: Public, Cultural and Educational Location: Beirut Central District, Lebanon Client: Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Built-up area: 22.000 sqm Year: 2002 Status: Closed completion Collaborators Renders: Guillaume Credoz The building stands as a distinctive entity, integrated in [...]
Fact Sheet
Category: Public, Cultural and Educational
Location: Beirut Central District, Lebanon
Client: Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Built-up area: 22.000 sqm
Year: 2002
Status: Closed completion
Collaborators
Renders: Guillaume Credoz
The building stands as a distinctive entity, integrated in its environment,reflecting the image of the country and its distinguished guests.
The main courtyard stands between two rigid traditional blocks in continuation with a garden project by Solidere on the neighboring plot. This negative space with its light metallic structure acts as a bridge joining both buildings and allowing the banquet halls and the minister’s office to extend into planted terraces.