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Winning project for the new Arts and Culture House in Beirut by Alberto Catalano
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Catalano beat a large and competitive field of international firms,
ateliers and individual architects with his design, earning a $75,000
prize and a commission for the project.
Funded by a $20 million gift from the Sultanate of Oman, the House of
Arts and Culture will the first of its kind in Beirut. The expected
completion date is early 2013.
The House has long been envisioned as an essential public space for
the cultivation of Lebanon’s vibrant artistic community, which has, for
over a century, been at the vanguard of regional artistic and cultural
movements. And last week’s announcement was an important step toward
the realization of the ambitious goal to revitalize Lebanon’s public
endowment in the artistic sphere.
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Floor plan of the theaters
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Floor plan of the exhibition area
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The competition’s second and
third place prizes went to Beatriz Ramo Lopez de Angulo with STAR
strategies architecture from The Netherlands and Grigoryan Yury with
Project Meganom from Russia.

Images: Alberto Catalano
Source: Bustler