ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1015879/j-g-jabbra-library-and-r-nassar-central-administration-building-atelier-pagnamenta-torriani Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000 Hana Abdel https://www.archdaily.com/1015879/j-g-jabbra-library-and-r-nassar-central-administration-building-atelier-pagnamenta-torriani The Lebanese American University commissioned Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani to design a new Library and a Central Administration building on its Byblos Campus—above the city of Jbeil (or Byblos), where the Phoenicians codified the world’s first phonetic alphabet. The excavated rock and the bare mountain above the site were my first impressions while visiting the Byblos Campus area. Thus, the exposed sedimentary rock and the complex, stratified history of the region became the main inspiration for APT’s design.

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