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    A billion dollars of cement and limestone: The Beirut New Waterfront

    Lebanon

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    Reminiscent of an emerging Gulf mega polis, the new facade of the city center is a striving still in the making at a distance. But in a moment, two bikers are about to gush out into the sunset from behind the giant cyclopean breakwater, unsuspected... by: lor Views[170] A hill of sand gravel suspended in the sunset is entitled to become as majestic as the view it's intended to host. For the time being, foreign construction workers are the ones privileged to roam her liberating peaks. by: lor Views[805] Even though it’s a wide-open expanse where everything is more visible, the landfill is so much more loving towards the dances pouring in from just a block away… however humble, she already claims a sovereignty all her own. But will Beirut ever let her be? by: lor Views[211] Meanwhile from afar, nature looks calm and forgiving. But somehow she’s always veiled from direct awareness; interspersed by geometrical entities of our making, themselves so innocent, they really have no say in the game, except becoming as silent and gazeful as nature itself. by: lor Views[183] The project was initiated at the end of the 90’s during the economic boom of the post Lebanese civil war years. The ambition:
     

    Photos: My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

    Monday, 14 Jan 2013 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

    I am a professional performing artist - a classical musician - who’s been living in Beirut for the past 5 years. But at crossroads in life I’ve come to acknowledge to myself that my true profession is that of an explorer: a lover of life in its rawest ... Read more >
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