Cycles of Collapsing Progress was a month-long contemporary art exhibition that took place at the Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon—a public project designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1960s—and the Tripoli Roman Citadel. The exhibition was divided into three thematic sections: Collapse of Modernism, Cycles of Nature, and Socio-Historical Cycles. It […]
Located in Clemenceau, Ras Beirut (Lebanon), a 350-square-metre mid-century residential home was transformed into a whiskey bar and jazz venue. The main challenge of this specific space was developing a venue that would blend into its 1940s environment, bearing in mind specific F&B standards, functionality and circulation, comfortable acoustics, and versatile, adaptable lighting within the […]
Located in Sodeco, Beirut, The Grasshopper is a bar room in which all lighting fixtures and furniture have been tailor-made, custom-designed, and prototyped to fit its 35-square-meter interior. The Grasshopper stands in the heart of the city and reflects in many ways the capital’s golden years of the 1960s.
Upon first visiting the bare site of the new Saudi Press Agency (Saudi Arabia), we knew that acoustics were important and needed to be considered when constructing the interior space. The Saudi Press Agency’s auditorium is a 25-meter-diameter concrete sphere that required precise acoustic studies in order to deal with major reverberation and echo issues. […]
For the first time ever, the UNESCO World Heritage site of Baalbek, Lebanon, hosted a contemporary art exhibition within its museum and archaeological sites, most notably Bacchus, the largest standing Roman temple. The exhibit centered on the importance of on-site museums, exploring, within the context of Baalbek, how monuments and artefacts become symbols of an […]
The site for the new bar was a 45-year-old automobile spare parts shop located on the main street of Mar Mikhayel (Beirut, Lebanon), known for its 1960s heritage architecture, including the famous Electricité du Liban building and old train station. When designing Internazionale, we made sure the space easily integrated into its surroundings. With a […]
Located next to the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, the event venue was designed to reflect the previous space, which, as the name implies, was a factory. Most of the existing structures and materials were preserved, such as the metal trusses in the ceiling. The bricks making up the bar were part of an old chimney […]
This unique cocktail bar is situated in Mar Mikhayel, Beirut, next to what used to be the city’s main train station. Influenced by the proximity of the old railway, the design brought some of the golden-age features of the train station’s era into the interior of the space. The tunnel-like ceiling is made up of […]
“The Council” in Clemenceau, Beirut, is a broadcasting and media production company for which we conceptualised, designed, and executed the premises.
“Cooking Liberty” (2017) was part of the Art Dubai project at Madinat Jumeirah, where we collaborated with the art collective Atfal Ahdath to develop the scenography for a surrealist dinner influenced by Salvador Dalí’s Gala dinners.
