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High in Sursock Tower, an eighteen-floor Ashrafieh high-rise designed by the late Pierre Khoury, our writer meets its makers. The firm of Jamil Saab kept several floors of the building to serve as their corporate headquarters.
In 2010, painter Nabil Nahas marked forty years of creativity with a retrospective at the Beirut Exhibition Centre. Remarkably, it was the prolific artist's first show at home, ending an eighteen-year absence from his country of birth.
It is not big brands, celebrity guests or social-media campaigns that move our restless writer to travel. In a word, he seeks authenticity, and finds it where places stay true to themselves.
Beyond the fluorescent bikinis, blasting bars and poolside parties lies another Miami, a city of vast, ultra-cool design-district warehouses and unexpected nuance that rewards the visitor willing to look a little closer.
Box House is no box at all, but an L-shaped building holding three family homes, each uniquely shaped with its own private courtyard. Kuwaiti architects Massive Order conceal this complexity behind a composed, deliberately simple façade.
Michael Hansmeyer's milled columns and grotto resist easy description. Generated by algorithms and printed in three dimensions, his grotto bears 260 million facets, some a tenth of a millimetre, shifting as you approach.
Zaha Hadid's Issam Fares Institute transports our writer to another time, recalling a first visit to Tripoli's unfinished Rashid Karami Fair, where Oscar Niemeyer's monumental concrete forms still rise from a landscaped garden, abandoned before civil war.
Velvet curtains part on a stage where schoolchildren, ballet dancers, a funeral march and a runaway bride drift past in exaggerated slow motion, set to melancholic classical music amid baroque, hypnotic splendour.
A striking new landmark has appeared in the Bois de Boulogne. Completed in October to showcase the cultural ambitions of France's biggest maison, the Fondation Louis Vuitton cost almost 170 million dollars before land and art.
As a Philadelphia exhibition of unconventional materials draws to a close, Ukrainian-American tape artist Mark Khaisman explains his curious compulsion: I like to peel things, he says, peeling to the point of no origin.
Breguet and the Louvre may seem an odd pairing to the museum's ten million annual visitors, yet the Swiss watchmaker is plainly committed to championing European culture, from horology to the decorative arts.
When Eduardo Soteras Jalil left finance, he knew only that he loved telling stories. Then an exhibition by Czech photographer Koudelka changed everything, revealing a medium he had never imagined could move him so profoundly.