BERNARD KHOURY / DW5
Open Talk e-series 5.6
Virtual Conference
December 04, 2020
13. International Bauhaus Colloquium 2016: Dust and Data
Audimax, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
6:30pm
Returning to Beirut, an architect has designs on its future
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European-ness Porosity Symposium
Conferences
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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AIA Baltimore Spring Lecture Series 2015 - Rethinking Metropolis
Conferences
Tatlin Publishers
ISBN 978-5-903433-51-3
Vitruvius in Quarantine
In Collaboration with MARGRAF
13 April - 30 May
No Artificial Limits
17 March - 20 April 2000
Construction starts on plot 1282. The project features open façades along the totality of its 410m site perimeter. This is the first project to be built in a predominantly agricultural zone of Beirut which is undergoing fast development in the absence of any regulating masterplan.
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Teatro Margherita
04 September 2021
6:30pm
UMSoA Currents Lecture Series - Local Heroes
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Universitad International De Catalunya (UIC)
Conferences
Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action
Conferences
Discover Design Forum
Conferences
The Discreet Charm of Bernard Khoury | July/August issue
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Local authorities give preliminary approval to our latest scheme.
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Electa
ISBN: 978-8-837075-87-3
Tasmeem Doha 2024 / Under Construction
Closing Keynote
4 March 2024
The artisanry of construction
10 March 2023
Prishtina Architecture Week 2016: Inclusivity
Keynote Lecture
American School of Kosova Amphitheatre, 9pm
Second University of Naples Architecture Series
Conferences
Combat Architecture
Conferences
Cameron House
ISBN 978-174173005-0
Platform Architecture Festival
26 June 2023
Bernard Khoury, fighting amnesia in post-war Beirut | May/June issue
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Urban Legacies: Another New Babylon
Conferences
Past and Present
17 March 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
Episode 12: Bernard Khoury
Podcast
23 September, 2020
IT College of Architecture Spring 2015 Dean's Lecture Series - Local Heroes
Conferences
Toxic Grounds: My City is Bleeding
P.74-79
December, 2021
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The Quarantine tapes o4a: Bernard Khoury
Podcast
1 June, 2020
Le B018 fait peau neuve.
P. 200 - 201 N.88
February - March, 2019
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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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Bernard Khoury: Temporalités & Résistance
Entretien de Bernard Khoury par Didier Fiùza Faustino
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Our first intervention in the Arab Gulf States and B.O.T. competition winner in association with S.S.H.
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Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Program
Conferences
Our first free-standing structure catering to the banking sector, also fourth temporary structure built.
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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
Our largest development to date, located on the shore of southern Italy, the Santa Cesarea Masterlan spans over 1,5km².
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Architecture in Contexts of War
Conferences
Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN: 071-4843-12-1
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
Fall 2011 GSAAP Lectures - What is the Present in the Middle East?
Conferences
10th International Design Week
Co Create
18 May 2023
Patrimoines: Quand Beyrouth se bat avec son histoire
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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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Construire entre les cicatrices de Beyrouth.
P. 36 - 41.
22 February, 2020
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NTNU Faculty of Architecture & Fine Arts Lecture Series
Conferences
Days of Architecture 2017: Continuous Interior
Kino Meeting Point, 1pm
For the Taste of the New Generation.
P. 54 - 56
07 April, 2020
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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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Spazio: Derailing Beirut
27 May 2010 - 23 January 2011
Amphi 2 des loges, 14 rue Bonaparte - ENSAPM
April 11, 2019
6:30 pm
Dongdaemoon Design Plaza
16 September 2021 - 29 October 2021
Bilgi Architectural Design Graduate Program: Summer School Studio
25 - 30 July 2016
Bernard Khoury: Rebel with a Cause.
P. 06 - 15. Collector’s Issue N.22
2019
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Bernard Khoury.
In Order of Appearance
20 October - 2 December 2016
Opening: 20 October 2016, 6:30pm
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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UC Berkeley Lecture Series
Conferences
Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN 978-0-7148-4874-7
AUDITORIUM Lecture Series - Architecture and Power
Conferences
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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New Wars in Progress
Conferences
Architectural Association (AA) Lecture
AA Lecture Hall, 6:30 pm
Changing Strategies at The Museum of Applied Arts (MAK)
Conferences
Our proposal attempts to reconcile the private marina with the public corniche. The outcome of the competition is not announced.
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Our first executed residential project, is also our first built permanent structure.
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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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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
Our first built intervention, B018 opens its doors to the public after leaving its previous address.
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Spring 2019 Lecture Series
Palazzo Vettori, Lecture Hall, Via Cavour - Kent State University, Firenze
April 9, 2019
7:00 pm
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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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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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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When The Future Looks Bright, You Better Wear Shades.
01 October 2022
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
Environmental, social and economic sustainability through heritage conservation
Virtual Conference
19 November, 2020
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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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
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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Fall 2011 Open Lectures - Combat Architecture
Conferences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
ISBN: 84-252-2039-4
Days of Oris 16 Symposium
Vatroslav Lisinki Concert Hall, 12:30pm
Under Arms. Fire & Forget 2
10 September 2016 - 26 March 2017
V&A Publishing
ISBN 978-1-8517-7641-2
Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors: Bernard Khoury in dialogue with Pippo Ciorra
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Oris House of Architecture, Kralja Držislava 3, Zagreb
June 04, 2020 - July 31, 2020
SKIRA
ISBN: 88-849/-140-0
What is Radical Today? 40 Positions on Architecture
04 September, 2019 - 07 November, 2019
How should architects play their historical role today?
Virtual Conference
June 14, 2020
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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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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Katya Multiple Light Projectors (KMLP)
In collaboration with Mario Nanni (Viabizzuno)
13 April - 20 May 2015
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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Second built intervention opens its doors. Its structural rehabilitation is celebrated as a surgical intervention.
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Malaysian Institute of Architects | PAM PUBLIC LECTURES - Scenarios + Situations
Conferences
Future Tense 2015-2016 Lecture Series:
APRIL 25, 2016 / 7pm / Anchorage Museum
APRIL 26, 2016 / 6pm / Blue Loon
APRIL 27, 2016 / 6pm / 360 North
"From the Guts of The Ground" Lecture and Open Conversation
20 June 2024
SLIA Conference 2015 - Conversations with the Sky
Conferences
Dimensions 13 Exhibition
MPH - RV College of Architecture
March 22, 2019
10:00 am
Scarred Over.
P. 24 - 28. Issue No.81 / Q&A Issue
October / November, 2020
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Dispatch from Beirut: A project by Bernard Khoury
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Toxic Grounds (the blast)
Virtual Conference
11 November 2020
Toxic Grounds
03 September 2022
CCA Lecture Series
Conferences
1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces
14 June - 30 August 2010
A Supermall in Kuwait | Fall Semester
Studios
Le LUCA, en collaboration avec l'AACE (Arabic Association for Cultural Exchange)
Carré Auditorium - 1 rue de l'Aciérie, Luxembourg-Hollerich. 6:30 pm
Bernard Khoury’s Beirut architecture thrives on conflict
December 28, 2018
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World Nomads Lebanon: Architecture Series
Conferences
05 November 2022
Conferences
Creative Cities Talk | Culture for Urban Identity
Messeplatz,2pm
Penny Stamp Distingued Lecture Series
Conferences
Fall 2011 Lecture Series - Where the Hell are the Arabs?
Conferences
GSD Lecture Series
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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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International Campus Ultzama 2015: Built the Built
Conferences
Architecture: Bernard Khoury | Fall/Winter issue
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Reconstructing Beirut - Stitching the Skyline
Virtual Conference
05 March, 2021
C'était un Rendez-vous
23 October - 25 October 2013
Projet B018, Club de Jazz, Beyrouth, Liban | May/June issue
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Measure: Storefront Carpet Bombing
11 August - 19 September 2015
Initiated in 2006, our first built project in Armenia opens its doors with over 7,000 students enrolled.
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Recent Work
Conferences
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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Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors
Walid Raad in collaboration with Bernard Khoury
A Proposal for a Beirut Site Museum: Preface (2016 - 2036)
15 November 2017 - 20 May 2018
The Sharq International Financial Center is the largest most ambitious financial complex in Kuwait to date. The project is to house among other programs the Kuwait Stock Exchange, as well as a business hotel and a financial center.
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City and Anti-City
Conferences
IAAC Spring Lecture Series 2016
IAAC Auditorium, 7:30pm
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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Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47 - Casa dell’Architettura, Roma
February 18, 2020
7:00 pm
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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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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Culture Helps Beirut
P. 132 - 133. Issue 77
Winter 2020 - 2021
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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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Khalil Khouri Showcase
12 December, 2018 - 28 December, 2018
Public and Civic Spaces in the Arab world Talks Series
Conferences
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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Quasi Un Altro Mondo, B018, Beirut
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Department of Architecture & Industrial Design Research/Teaching Program
October - December 2016
B018 Beirut, Lebanon, Bernard Khoury | May/June issue
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Construction completed in a record time of five and a half months. Life expectancy of the project is seven years.
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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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November Talks 2012: Positions on Contemporary Architecture
Conferences
Fundamentalists and Other Arab Modernisms
07 June - 23 November 2014
