Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, originally built in 1929, demolished, and rebuilt in 1986 offers insights into the authenticity of creating replicas.
Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, originally built in 1929, demolished, and rebuilt in 1986 offers insights into the authenticity of creating replicas.
Lina Ghotmeh in conversation with Louisiana Channel discusses her first project in her home city of Beirut, the Stone Garden. An embodiment of resilience.
Almost 6 months ago, on August 4
th, 2020, the city of Beirut was shaken by one of the biggest non-nuclear blasts in history. Leaving the northern side of the capital in ruins, the explosion damaged around 40,000 buildings. New contemporary structures completed recently by local international architects are now facing reconstruction dilemmas, raising existential questions such as: How should reconstruction efforts of “new” damaged buildings look like? Should architects rebuild them as they were before the blast, erasing what has happened or should they leave scars and portray new realities?
In order to explore ideas and highlight different perspectives, ArchDaily had the chance to sit with three architects whose buildings were impacted by the blast. Bernard Khoury, Paul Kaloustian, and Lina Ghotmeh talked about their projects and their vision of the reconstruction of Beirut with ArchDaily s Managing Editor, Christele Harrouk, alongside Architectural Photographer Laurian Ghinito