Alberto Catalano to design the New Arts and Culture House in Beirut
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Apr 2009
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Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch has just won the international competition to design the New Arts and Culture House in Beirut, Lebanon. Catalano won a $75,000 prize and a comission for the project. The Arts and Culture House will be the first of its kind in Lebanon and is funded by a $20 million gift from the Sultanate of Oman. The project should be complete in 2013.
The second prize went to Beatriz Ramo Lopez de Angulo with STAR strategies+architecure, from The Netherlands. The third prize went to Grigoryan Yury with Project Meganom from Russia.
Seen at Bustler. More images after the break.
An interesting structuring of the programme that seems to be in dialogue with the political tectonics of the region.
good work
but i think it have very different effects after construction
I agree with that last comment. The renders have this glow/haze that makes us imagine the final result. I doubt it will look that wonderfull in real life.
I love the plan
No, of course it won’t look like folded moonshine when built, but it will look like a ruin reorganised. That, I think, is not accidental.
Definitely an interesting project.
totally bland, nondescript architecture
1:27 PM Feb 8th
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