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The Egg (Beirut City Center): Exterior · Unfinished cinema building "The Egg" in Beirut in April 2018
1/6 · Exterior · Unfinished cinema building "The Egg" in Beirut in April 2018Photo: Choinowski · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
The Egg (Beirut City Center): Exterior · The northern facade and underground parkings of the unfinished Egg building in Beirut, Lebanon
2/6 · Exterior · The northern facade and underground parkings of the unfinished Egg building in Beirut, LebanonPhoto: Emmeca · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
The Egg (Beirut City Center): Exterior · Old Beirut Dome
3/6 · Exterior · Old Beirut DomePhoto: Francisco Anzola · CC BY 2.0 · source
The Egg (Beirut City Center): Exterior · The broken down southern face of the Egg, with Al Amine Mosque appearing behind
4/6 · Exterior · The broken down southern face of the Egg, with Al Amine Mosque appearing behindPhoto: Emmeca · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
The Egg (Beirut City Center): Context
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The Egg (Beirut City Center): Context · Bachoura, Lebanon
6/6 · Context · Bachoura, LebanonPhoto: Jacky Lee · CC BY 3.0 · source
Photo 1: Exterior · Unfinished cinema building "The Egg" in Beirut in April 2018Photo 2: Exterior · The northern facade and underground parkings of the unfinished Egg building in Beirut, LebanonPhoto 3: Exterior · Old Beirut DomePhoto 4: Exterior · The broken down southern face of the Egg, with Al Amine Mosque appearing behindPhoto 5: ContextPhoto 6: Context · Bachoura, Lebanon

Culture & sport · Brutalism

The Egg (Beirut City Center)

Joseph Philippe Karam · Beirut, LB · 1965

Key featuresAn unfinished concrete cinema dome, started in 1965 and stopped by the civil war, now a city landmark.

Architect
Joseph Philippe Karam
Place
Beirut, LB
Year
1965
Typology
Culture & sport
Movement
Brutalism
Region
Middle East
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