Naji Gebran (L), Bernard Khoury (M), and Amran Gebran (R) opening B018's iconic roof. (Credit: Élise Quéau-Boukhari/L'Orient Today)
Bernard Khoury is tired of people referring to B018’s chairs and tables as “coffins.”“They’re music instrument cases,” he tells L’Orient Today, frustrated, weeks before the club’s reopening. Khoury, 58, designed B018’s venue in 1998, with the club since receiving international acclaim and a particular kind of fame. It has been repeatedly described by the press, tourists, and local patrons as the only place where Naomi Campbell was made to wait half an hour in line to get in. Khoury, for his part, won several international architecture awards for his work. But he is still more commonly remembered as the architect who “built his own bunker” in an underground club.Bernard Khoury at B018, a week before its reopening. (Credit: Élise Quéau-Boukhari/L'Orient Today) After decades of being hailed for its iconicity and then disparaged for its...
Bernard Khoury is tired of people referring to B018’s chairs and tables as “coffins.”“They’re music instrument cases,” he tells L’Orient Today, frustrated, weeks before the club’s reopening. Khoury, 58, designed B018’s venue in 1998, with the club since receiving international acclaim and a particular kind of fame. It has been repeatedly described by the press, tourists, and local patrons as the only place where Naomi Campbell was made to wait half an hour in line to get in. Khoury, for his part, won several international architecture awards for his work. But he is still more commonly remembered as the architect who “built his own bunker” in an underground club.Bernard Khoury at B018, a week before its reopening. (Credit: Élise Quéau-Boukhari/L'Orient Today) After decades of being hailed for its iconicity and...
