BERNARD KHOURY / DW5
Le LUCA, en collaboration avec l'AACE (Arabic Association for Cultural Exchange)
Carré Auditorium - 1 rue de l'Aciérie, Luxembourg-Hollerich. 6:30 pm
Felix Hentschel Luckow (Hrsg.)
ISBN: 3-7757-1126-0
Malaysian Institute of Architects | PAM PUBLIC LECTURES - Scenarios + Situations
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Projet B018, Club de Jazz, Beyrouth, Liban | May/June issue
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Our first commission in the UAE, is located in the Business Bay District of Dubai. It is conceived as a succession of over-hanging terraces, waterfalls and pools protruding from its facades. It is also an attempt to break away from the prevailing office tower typologies that shape Dubai's desperately loud skyline.
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UC Berkeley Lecture Series
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Future Tense 2015-2016 Lecture Series:
APRIL 25, 2016 / 7pm / Anchorage Museum
APRIL 26, 2016 / 6pm / Blue Loon
APRIL 27, 2016 / 6pm / 360 North
Episode 12: Bernard Khoury
Podcast
23 September, 2020
Construction starts on plots 1342 and 1343. The 20 floors high edifice will house apartments laid out on stretched narrow floor plates of 35x12m with multiple exposures on all four orientations as well as outdoor balcony landings on all floors.
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Amphi 2 des loges, 14 rue Bonaparte - ENSAPM
April 11, 2019
6:30 pm
Recent Work
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Fall 2011 Open Lectures - Combat Architecture
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Our first intervention in Morocco is a land art project spread on 7 hectares of agricultural land. At its center is a 60m diameter disc hovering above the wheat field, used as an irrigation water reservoir that also serves as a pool. The project also includes several residential pavilions as well as other leisure facilities.
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Our first executed residential project, is also our first built permanent structure.
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Combat Architecture
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S.S.H. International teams up with us to design the largest private sector development in Kuwait, with a total built up area of over 350,000m². The project includes two residential towers, a shopping mall, a hotel, and a private hospital.
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Tasmeem Doha 2024 / Under Construction
Closing Keynote
4 March 2024
Department of Architecture & Industrial Design Research/Teaching Program
October - December 2016
Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action
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05 November 2022
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Conceived as what may seem to be a series of incompatible components, Al Khozama's Masterplan is developed along a 1km stretch of highway, with a total BUA of 247,000m².
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Rehabilitation of the Pfefferberg complex which includes the restoration of a historical German brewery and 21 industrial structures (14,000m²) in addition to the grafting of 7000m² of new buildings onto the existing fabric.
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A cultural center is to be built on the ruins of the house of Abu Khalil Qabbani's house. Qabbani is widely known in the Arab world for his pioneering works in theater and performance art.
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Second built intervention opens its doors. Its structural rehabilitation is celebrated as a surgical intervention.
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Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN 978-0-7148-4874-7
Toxic Grounds
03 September 2022
CCA Lecture Series
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Penny Stamp Distingued Lecture Series
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Bilgi Architectural Design Graduate Program: Summer School Studio
25 - 30 July 2016
10th International Design Week
Co Create
18 May 2023
The City and the Water: A Laboratory Towards the Future
Bernard Khoury. Plot # 1072
at the International Pavilion curated by Luca Molinari
19 - 28 November 2017
Arsenali Repubblicani, Pisa
Opening: 19 November 2017, 4:00 pm
Dispatch from Beirut: A project by Bernard Khoury
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Our proposal attempts to reconcile the private marina with the public corniche. The outcome of the competition is not announced.
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XXXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture
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Dongdaemoon Design Plaza
16 September 2021 - 29 October 2021
B018 Beirut, Lebanon, Bernard Khoury | May/June issue
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An Architect Turns His Back on the Sea
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What is Radical Today? 40 Positions on Architecture
04 September, 2019 - 07 November, 2019
C'était un Rendez-vous
23 October - 25 October 2013
Bernard Khoury: Temporalités & Résistance
Entretien de Bernard Khoury par Didier Fiùza Faustino
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Commissioned by the AGBU the project is conceived as a progressive addition to the evolving social and cultural fabric of the city. Articulated as an extension to the existing public garden, the educational facilities are meant to be free of charge to all residents of Stepanakert.
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Construire entre les cicatrices de Beyrouth.
P. 36 - 41.
22 February, 2020
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Construction of Plot # 7950 is complete. Our project was developed in close collaboration with local technicians and artisans who executed complex kinetic elements including 52 electrical engines used to open the roof structure and the to hoist the hydraulic platform of the reception balcony.
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For the Taste of the New Generation.
P. 54 - 56
07 April, 2020
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Initially designed in 2005, the KFTZ is inaugurated. It is the first office park in the Kuwait free trade zone, home of the Alargan HQ among other major Kuwaiti and international corporations.
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The Quarantine tapes o4a: Bernard Khoury
Podcast
1 June, 2020
No Artificial Limits
17 March - 20 April 2000
Tatlin Publishers
ISBN 978-5-903433-51-3
Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47 - Casa dell’Architettura, Roma
February 18, 2020
7:00 pm
Urban Legacies: Another New Babylon
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Universitad International De Catalunya (UIC)
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Public and Civic Spaces in the Arab world Talks Series
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Approval of our residential scheme, part of a larger masterplan promoted by Solidere. The development includes projects by Herzog & de Meuron among other local and international architectural studios.
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Khoury meets with H.E. Minister of Tourism of the Sultanate of Oman and gets approval upon the proposed design for the resort to be built in the reserve of Al Khayran. The project is also endorsed by Mr. Singh Oberoi, chairman of Oberoi Group appointed as operator of the resort.
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Initiated in 2006, our first built project in Armenia opens its doors with over 7,000 students enrolled.
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World Nomads Lebanon: Architecture Series
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UMSoA Currents Lecture Series - Local Heroes
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Spring 2019 Lecture Series
Palazzo Vettori, Lecture Hall, Via Cavour - Kent State University, Firenze
April 9, 2019
7:00 pm
Cameron House
ISBN 978-174173005-0
V&A Publishing
ISBN 978-1-8517-7641-2
Prishtina Architecture Week 2016: Inclusivity
Keynote Lecture
American School of Kosova Amphitheatre, 9pm
Construction starts on Plot 1072. With 13,000 m² of BUA, the residential building reaches a height of 100m and overlooks Beirut Central District, the port and the coastal area that stretches north of Beirut.
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Second University of Naples Architecture Series
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November Talks 2012: Positions on Contemporary Architecture
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Under Arms. Fire & Forget 2
10 September 2016 - 26 March 2017
IT College of Architecture Spring 2015 Dean's Lecture Series - Local Heroes
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Benefiting from its strategic location, the building is articulated around a continuous automobile ramp connecting the two most important vehicular arteries feeding Beirut with all the reference levels of the proposed project.
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Concept approval by the developers. Conceived as a vertical resort, our proposal could be the first skyscraper with no peripheral envelope with open-air landings on landscaped plateaus.
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Local authorities give preliminary approval to our latest scheme.
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IAAC Spring Lecture Series 2016
IAAC Auditorium, 7:30pm
Salon Sophie Charlotte. Maß und messen
Ästhetik und der Mensch als Maß in der arabischen und deutschen Architektur.
Bernard Khoury and Friedrich von Borries. Moderated by Bilal Orfali, Kirill Dmitriev
January 19, 2019
22:30 PM
Dimensions 13 Exhibition
MPH - RV College of Architecture
March 22, 2019
10:00 am
Concept submitted. Our client is the founder of Art Kinetik, brand of high performance vessels. We are promised that the more elaborate elements of our project will be manufactured by the master artisans of his trade.
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Days of Architecture 2017: Continuous Interior
Kino Meeting Point, 1pm
City and Anti-City
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YOUPrison: Prisoner of War (POW 08)
12 June - 17 October 2008
Days of Oris 16 Symposium
Vatroslav Lisinki Concert Hall, 12:30pm
Otis 2015-2016 Designer-in-Residence Master Class
17 - 23 March 2016
Architecture in Contexts of War
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Toxic Fluids: My City is Bleeding, Contaminating the Mediterranean Basin with its Toxic Fluids
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
16 February 2021
Fall 2011 Lecture Series - Where the Hell are the Arabs?
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Katya Multiple Light Projectors (KMLP)
In collaboration with Mario Nanni (Viabizzuno)
13 April - 20 May 2015
Le B018 fait peau neuve.
P. 200 - 201 N.88
February - March, 2019
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Electa
ISBN: 978-8-837075-87-3
Banff Sessions 2008: Emerge - Exploring the possibilities, Inspirations and Innovations of Design
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Environmental, social and economic sustainability through heritage conservation
Virtual Conference
19 November, 2020
AIA Baltimore Spring Lecture Series 2015 - Rethinking Metropolis
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Proposal for a residential structure that will definitely not be the tallest in Dubai. It will not add a colorful note to the supposedly spectacular image of the Palm. It is not conceived to be contemplated unlike most developments around it. It is meant to be experienced.
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Toxic Grounds: My City is Bleeding
P.74-79
December, 2021
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Submittal of our multi-phased scheme for what is expected to be the most ambitious technological hub in Armenia. Its program is complementary to the Tumo Center inaugurated in 2011.
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Better Be Watching the Clouds
Walid Raad in collaboration with Bernard Khoury
A Proposal for a Beirut Site Museum: Preface (2016 - 2036)
Opening reception on Thursday, August 31, 2017
from 7 - 9 pm at Sfeir-Semler Gallery
AUDITORIUM Lecture Series - Architecture and Power
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Measure: Storefront Carpet Bombing
11 August - 19 September 2015
Our first free-standing structure catering to the banking sector, also fourth temporary structure built.
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W.A.V.E. 2017
Autorium Ex Cotonifico, Università Iuav di Venezia, 6pm
When The Future Looks Bright, You Better Wear Shades.
01 October 2022
Open Talk e-series 5.6
Virtual Conference
December 04, 2020
How should architects play their historical role today?
Virtual Conference
June 14, 2020
GSD Lecture Series
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Our first built intervention, B018 opens its doors to the public after leaving its previous address.
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Bernard Khoury.
In Order of Appearance
20 October - 2 December 2016
Opening: 20 October 2016, 6:30pm
Scarred Over.
P. 24 - 28. Issue No.81 / Q&A Issue
October / November, 2020
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Hovering over the summit of one of the highest peaks of Mount Lebanon, the house develops along a circular path with a fully retractable facade. In its core, burried underground, is an eighteen meters diameter spherical water reservoir, that could be accessible for swimming.
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The artisanry of construction
10 March 2023
After numerous propositions to re-animate secondary sites with the B.C.D., Solidere entrusts us with the rehabilitation of the iconic City Center ruin which sits on one of the most prominent sites in Beirut.
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NTNU Faculty of Architecture & Fine Arts Lecture Series
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
ISBN: 84-252-2039-4
Our first intervention in the Arab Gulf States and B.O.T. competition winner in association with S.S.H.
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Creative Cities Talk | Culture for Urban Identity
Messeplatz,2pm
Reconstructing Beirut - Stitching the Skyline
Virtual Conference
05 March, 2021
SKIRA
ISBN: 88-849/-140-0
Our third intervention on the Zorah Development, a project by Solidere International. It comprises 60 residential units, leisure activities linked to the planned beach club as well as a retail strip appending to the numerous hotels and residential developments included in the masterplan.
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The Discreet Charm of Bernard Khoury | July/August issue
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Patrimoines: Quand Beyrouth se bat avec son histoire
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Flagship of Metropolis Cinematheque and Theaters, the project is conceived as an urban sponge permeable on its peripheries to pedestrian traffic. The inhabited topography is articulated as a promenade linking the different levels of the bordering streets to the 110m long needle resting upon it.
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Oris House of Architecture, Kralja Držislava 3, Zagreb
June 04, 2020 - July 31, 2020
Our largest development to date, located on the shore of southern Italy, the Santa Cesarea Masterlan spans over 1,5km².
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I Wish I Could Make Them All Look Like You
for SBODIO32 "Sense-me", Milan Design Week 2017
Date: 4th - 9th April
Hours: 10:30 - 13:00
Address: via Gaetano Sbodio, 32/2, 20134, Milan
Culture Helps Beirut
P. 132 - 133. Issue 77
Winter 2020 - 2021
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Images Publishing
ISBN 978-18-6470-96-8
Teatro Margherita
04 September 2021
6:30pm
Discover Design Forum
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"From the Guts of The Ground" Lecture and Open Conversation
20 June 2024
First presentation of our intervention in the general masterplan of the Ajman Resort combining works of Shigeru Ban and Piero Lissoni.
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Fundamentalists and Other Arab Modernisms
07 June - 23 November 2014
Walking Through Someone Else's Dream
Installation by Bernard Khoury: In Order of Appearance
12 October, 2017 - 1 April, 2018
Location: the Collégiale Saint-Pierre Le Puellier
Opening: Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 6 pm
Construction completed in a record time of five and a half months. Life expectancy of the project is seven years.
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Housed in a succession of topographic floor-plates that define a terraced mount of over 15m of altitude, a cinema complex along with retail spaces will be the base of a high-rise development that will include a hotel tower and office buildings.
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Scheme approved by the municipal authorities and brought to the completion of construction drawings before being dismissed in favor of an underground intervention.
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Platform Architecture Festival
26 June 2023
One of Libya's most extravagant projects, the Sebha hub spans over 5km horizontally. It is commissioned by the son of the King of the Kings of Africa as a gateway to the continent.
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Returning to Beirut, an architect has designs on its future
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Bernard Khoury, fighting amnesia in post-war Beirut | May/June issue
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Architectural Association (AA) Lecture
AA Lecture Hall, 6:30 pm
Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Program
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Bernard Khoury’s Beirut architecture thrives on conflict
December 28, 2018
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Toxic Grounds (the blast)
Virtual Conference
11 November 2020
Khalil Khouri Showcase
12 December, 2018 - 28 December, 2018
Construction has started on the Quasar Tower site. Initially planned as a hotel, the project has been converted to a set of residential towers. With 50m of street frontage on the main artery accessing the BCD and reaching over 140m in height, it will be our tallest built structure in Beirut to date.
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Perhaps the most unusual program we have tackled to this date. Surramanraa (a women's only leisure facility) is a direct commission entrusted to us by a member of the Saudi Royal Family. The project spans on 7,000m2 of leisure activities including a Spa, retail outlets and a bookstore.
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SLIA Conference 2015 - Conversations with the Sky
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Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN: 071-4843-12-1
Quasi Un Altro Mondo, B018, Beirut
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Past and Present
17 March 2023
Changing Strategies at The Museum of Applied Arts (MAK)
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