May 2026 · News
A memorial park proposed for the Beirut port silos
An international call for proposals has been issued for the renewal of Beirut's port, including the site of the grain silos left standing after the August 2020 explosion. Among the ideas in circulation is a memorial park by architect Carlos Moubarak — a green public space along the surviving silos and quays, with the blast crater reimagined as a “remembrance ring” of water set in black concrete.
Families of the victims have long argued that the silos should be preserved as a silent witness. However the competition is resolved, it touches something close to our own work: how a city builds memory into public space without freezing it — leaving room for the port to live again alongside what it must not forget.
August 2026 · News
Dubai plans a 4.5-million-square-metre district
Emaar has moved to unveil one of Dubai's largest master developments yet — a district of more than 4.5 million square metres, valued at around AED 200 billion, planned to house some 150,000 residents across towers, villas, offices, hotels and cultural venues. In parallel, bids have opened for the long-paused Dubai Creek Tower, Santiago Calatrava's dhow-inspired design.
The scale is a world away from the villas and buildings we work on in Lebanon. Still, we follow these projects closely — for how they handle density, shade and public life at a size where every small design decision is multiplied by the hundred thousand.
February 2026 · News
A billion-dollar framework to rebuild Lebanon's infrastructure
The Lebanon Emergency Assistance Project (LEAP), financed by the World Bank, has been set up as a US$1 billion scalable framework to help restore infrastructure and lifeline services in areas damaged by the 2023–2024 conflict, beginning with an initial US$250 million. Official assessments put direct damage across ten sectors at around US$7.2 billion, with total recovery needs near US$11 billion.
Numbers at this scale are hard to picture. For us they are a reminder that reconstruction is not only an act of engineering but of care — that every figure stands for streets, schools and homes, and that how they are rebuilt will shape daily life for a generation.