Beirut's Urban Transformation (1990-Present)

[Acco]

Fellow Forumers - In the next few days, I will post some before (most civil war era) and after pictures of Beirut's Urban Transformation throughout the last two decades. I will attempt to find similar pictures or pinpoint to a landmark that would show you the transformation of this Phoenix that will never fail to impress and will continue to build a better, stronger and brighter Lebanon. Enjoy!

Beirut City Hall (to the right)
(Circa 1988)

@Solidere
(2005)

@sarkis


Corniche Manara
(1990)

@Eisenbach
(2012)

Hussein Moussa lb
(2014)

Ein el Mrayse, Beirut by mmansphoto, on Flickr

St-Georges Bay
(1990)

@ice_b
(2013)

@ornia

Downtown Beirut
Before (Circa 1987) and After (2010)

@Solidere

Achrafieh
Circa 1991

@Solidere
(2005)

@Sarkis
(January 2011)

New born city by monisbu, on Flickr
@fadyation


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Amazing Sunrise cloud above Beirut. by Hassan Chamoun, on Flickr

[hotwheels]

Snøhetta's First Commission in Lebanon Features Checkerboard Design

Norwegian architectural practice Snøhetta has won a competition to design the new Banque Libano Francaise (BLF) headquarters in Beirut, the firm's first Lebanese project. The highrise development implements a checkerboard design of punched windows and opaque cladding broken up by carved cutouts.