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After inheriting a smaller portion of land, he built the Grudge to devalue his brother s property.
The architect Sandra Rishani told Insider no new structure can be built in its place because of zoning laws.
According to a Lebanese urban myth, one man turned sibling pettiness into an extreme sport when he erected the country s thinnest habitable building in front of his brother s property. His intentions were simple: to block his brother s seafront views and devalue the property.
Situated in the Manara neighborhood of Beirut, the skinny building is known by locals as al-Ba`sa, which loosely means the Grudge in Arabic. It is 2 feet wide at its narrowest point, 14 feet at its widest, and was built in 1954 after the owner reportedly received a less favorable plot of land than his brother and wanted revenge by way of inconvenience.