Architect Jean Nouvel has restarted work on The Landmark, a large mixed-use development in central Beirut, Lebanon.
The project features a 42-storey tower containing a hotel and apartments a horizontal commercial and leisure block with a raised pedestrian street.
Nouvel won the project through an international competition in 2004 but the project was later put on hold. Nouvel has now revised his designs.
More information on the project’s website.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
Absolutely beautiful!
October 18th, 2007 at 9:22 ami wish it were a bit more like the band beirut
October 18th, 2007 at 4:49 pmIt seems that it is going to be great! Honestly it´s a great turn back to opacity or opacity levels. I’m getting pretty tired of glass phalos in the middle east.
October 18th, 2007 at 5:32 pmwell, i’m not so aware of the latest Nouvel’s projects, but considering his last phalo, this one seems to be the best for me… the tower looks too high (some shots), comparing to the other building, but it doesn’t have any worse effect on that one… really nice…
October 19th, 2007 at 2:47 pmis it just me, or are those interior renderings awful?
October 19th, 2007 at 9:34 pmThe articulation on this project is superb! Glad to see someone counter the bland neomodernism so commonly expressed in highrise buildings.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:10 pmDoesn’t it remind you of a student project…
October 24th, 2007 at 4:10 pmDont understand this…why make think easy?
October 30th, 2007 at 3:53 pmjean is just amazing! how can he possibly abolish the desires? the desire to end up to something beautiful. he does it effortlessly. he executes things without thinking of what it would end up. there should be a nouvel in all of us, not bothering about ‘avant-garde’
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:17 amHi. Do you think you could help me source some hi-res images of this project?
November 7th, 2007 at 5:08 amThis supurb articulation surpasses any highrise I have seen in the entire world. This one building captures the scars of war-time beirut as well as portraying layers of contradiction and inconsistancy that best portrays the diverse beirut.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:31 amIts a good project for Beirut.
February 4th, 2008 at 8:17 pmspeechless… too bad this is only conceptual.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 pmto khodges2:
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:07 amthis is not conceptual, the tower is on hold at the moment because of the sit in in the downtown area of Beirut. It has been approved and construction was due to start a while ago. The site is enclosed and renders are around the block. Sadly, the on going strikes in downtown Beirut are retarding many beautiful projects such as this one… Hope the political problems get solved soon.
C’est moche comme tout… rien à voir avec les autres batiments de beyrouth….
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pmIl faut arrêter ce projet