Tag Beirut, Lebanon

27-01-2021

WHOSE THE FAULT: PLASTIC OR MAN?

“We are consuming resources that future generations should have inherited. The Earth is a closed system. And if in a closed system we continue to consume without measure, the resources will run out. No other species would do that”— Stefano Mancuso

13-10-2020

After Ago new collection by Richard Yasmine

Lebanese designer Richard Yasmine is back in the limelight with a new collection of objects. AFTER AGO embodies the themes dear to Yasmine, who has always placed emphasis on the value of his native country’s artisan work, this time combined with architectural influences from the last century.

01-07-2020

New episode of the Houda Kassatly, 365 photographs cycle

The cycle of exhibitions called Houda Kassatly, 365 photographs organized by the Alice Mogabgab art gallery in Beirut. The pandemic hasn’t stopped the third episode, called Tripoli of the Orient, Plural City, it’s just sent it online, with the photography narrative of the city of Tripoli by the first female artist-photographer in Lebanon.

19-02-2020

Beirut RiverLESS Urban Forest and how to regenerate a city

Since last year, Lebanese architecture studio theOtherDada and Afforestt, an Indian company that replants forests all over the world, have been planting trees from 17 native Lebanese species along the banks of the Beirut River. Concrete action to bring back the green and the city’s environmental quality as a consequence.

05-04-2019

Richard Yasmine and the restorative power of white at Milan Design Week

Can the design of objects around us affect our physical and psychological wellbeing? A glance at the new collection by the Lebanese designer, Richard Yasmine - The Cure - on display during Milan Design Week 2019 suggests that the answer is yes.

10-10-2018

WORKac Beirut Museum of Art: An open museum for Beirut

Studio WORKac has designed an art museum with a permeable envelope in Beirut, an iconic building that forms an urban landmark in a new public park with a focus on art.

12-09-2018

The Livability of the Mediterranean Hinterland, Venice Biennale

As part of the Meetings on Architecture programme to be held during the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia from May to November 2018, the Pavilion of Lebanon is organising a conference on the hinterland of Mediterranean cities.

08-08-2018

Beirut, The Shape of A City, Nathaniel Rackowe

An exhibition at the Letitia Art Gallery in Beirut showcases Nathaniel Rackowe's latest work called The Shape of A City, where the British artist uses Beirut as the specific departure point to investigate the ever-changing nature of cities, and their continual destruction and renewal.

10-04-2018

Richard Yasmine and the bearable lightness of design

With HAWA Beirut, Lebanese designer Richard Yasmine created a collection of pastel-hued furniture with a timeless beauty, whose arches are a tribute to Lebanese architecture.