Alberto Catalano to design the New Arts and Culture House in Beirut

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.

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Cite: Sebastian Jordana. "Alberto Catalano to design the New Arts and Culture House in Beirut" 04 Apr 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/18868/alberto-catalano-to-design-the-new-arts-and-culture-house-in-beirut> ISSN 0719-8884

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