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Project 72 - Stone Garden Apartment Building

Stone Garden Apartment Building / Lina Ghotmeh Architecture

➨ Function: Residential and commercial building
➨ Location: Beirut, Lebanon
➨ Area: 6413 m2

Hello, my fellow women architects.
Hope you're doing great. 

Recently, I've been asked what is my favorite building that was designed by an Arab woman architect, Although I don't like the favorite questions, I noticed I don't know any, except for Zaha Hadid, my knowledge of Arab women in the architecture field is very rare. Therefore, I started a weekly segment where I look and analyze a building that was designed by women architects. 

Let's start. 

Today we will talk about a building that was designed by Lina Ghotmeh, a Lebanese- French architect that founded her company in 2006. Viewing architecture as an act of resilience for more humane and ecologically built environments, Ghotmeh’s architecture dialogues strong with nature. Lina is also an academic and taught between 2007 and 2014 as an associate professor at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture. She has also lectured at the Royal College of Arts, the Royal Arts Academy, the Bartlett school, and the Cité d’Architecture et du Patrimoine.

Let's get into the project 

The project is settled in the port area of Beirut; it takes place among different historical tissues and new structures. It represents an in-between condition, between life and death, presence and absence. Evanescence and timelessness, beauty and rawness. 


The building is distinctive with its facade, the various window's size is a response to the old violence marks that can be seen at old buildings, It creates different frames for fresh stories and views. The material that was used at the facade was chiseled by the hands of unique background workers, It's an example of how we can use architecture to get people together. 


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