Role: Lead Architect (Bernard Khoury Architects/DW5)
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Status: Complete 2011
Developer: Khayat Group
Type: Hotel & Suites
Size: 125,000 sf / 11,500 m2
1866 Hotel & Suites rehabilitates an existing 19 story
concrete
frame into a hotel with a commercial base. The façade of the building is treated as a vertical landscape that is materialized by an assemblage of planters of various depths and dimensions. The building sits on a narrow busy street facing the largest university in the city. The facade was conceived to be seen from below and attempts to hide the banal horizontal stacking of floor plates.