October 17th, 2007

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Architect Jean Nouvel has restarted work on The Landmark, a large mixed-use development in central Beirut, Lebanon.

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The project features a 42-storey tower containing a hotel and apartments a horizontal commercial and leisure block with a raised pedestrian street.

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Nouvel won the project through an international competition in 2004 but the project was later put on hold. Nouvel has now revised his designs.

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More information on the project’s website.

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Posted by Marcus Fairs

19 Responses to “The Landmark, Beirut, by Jean Nouvel”

  1. przemo Says:

    Absolutely beautiful!

  2. CMW Says:

    i wish it were a bit more like the band beirut

  3. JQL Says:

    It 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.

  4. João Says:

    well, 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…

  5. anselmogz Says:

    is it just me, or are those interior renderings awful?

  6. j.blu Says:

    The articulation on this project is superb! Glad to see someone counter the bland neomodernism so commonly expressed in highrise buildings.

  7. J Says:

    Doesn’t it remind you of a student project…

  8. Dekodex Says:

    Dont understand this…why make think easy?

  9. leandro Says:

    jean 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’

  10. luke Says:

    Hi. Do you think you could help me source some hi-res images of this project?

  11. Joe Says:

    This 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.

  12. Ozzy Says:

    Its a good project for Beirut.

  13. khodges2 Says:

    speechless… too bad this is only conceptual.

  14. estephan Says:

    to khodges2:
    this 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.

  15. Georges Says:

    C’est moche comme tout… rien à voir avec les autres batiments de beyrouth….
    Il faut arrêter ce projet

  16. Joseph B. Says:

    It is certainly an outlandish project so it will be very bizarre to be built in Beirut such a concept that plays alone among a traditional urban context.

  17. P Says:

    This project is a mastodonte!! it has nothing to do with beirut except for the scars on the building!! it denies the scale of Beirut’s urban fabric and perpetuates the orientalist myth! It is such an orientalizing project! and aesthetically hideous! It is one more of Solidere’s ugly decisions that have butchered the city! It goes against all refinement. it is an ugly guant, massive and bulky…

  18. Rony Hobeika Says:

    Thanks P i was reading the previous comments.. Obviously none of these guyz who commented seem to have any basic knowledge of the rich historical background that Beirut Celebrates. And now with the Reconstrcution process of Beirut Central District, its image that was once projected will be destroyed by architects who are not familiar with its typology and urban context and complexity. This project is a disaster and its scale is not even close to the proportions of the city. I think our friend Jean’s only purpose is to advertise himself by creating an ICON or a bilbao effect in Beirut, but if it was realized, history will be the judge of him and Solidere’s works

  19. Georges Haddad Says:

    We don’t need like this kind of buildings in down town of Beirut, it is enough what they have already done with this place with all these buildings, that they finishing any space left in this area.

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