Youssef Tohme presents the first images of "A Common Horizon," Lebanon’s project for the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale. (Credit: L'Orient-Le Jour)
At the National Library, the conference room is still awaiting the official announcement when Ghassan Salameh makes his way to the stage. The culture minister greets several guests along the way, among them a salt-and-pepper-bearded man in a black shirt. The gesture is distracted at first. Someone whispers to him that he has just shaken hands with the winner. Salameh immediately turns around and pats Youssef Tohme on the cheeks with a paternal familiarity that, in a matter of seconds, gives away the suspense. More like this New ‘Monnot Awards’ shine a spotlight on Lebanese theater So it is "A Common Horizon," led by the Lebanese architect and his firm, YTAA, that will represent Lebanon at the 20th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. The project centers on a question as simple in its formulation as it is dizzying...
At the National Library, the conference room is still awaiting the official announcement when Ghassan Salameh makes his way to the stage. The culture minister greets several guests along the way, among them a salt-and-pepper-bearded man in a black shirt. The gesture is distracted at first. Someone whispers to him that he has just shaken hands with the winner. Salameh immediately turns around and pats Youssef Tohme on the cheeks with a paternal familiarity that, in a matter of seconds, gives away the suspense. More like this New ‘Monnot Awards’ shine a spotlight on Lebanese theater So it is "A Common Horizon," led by the Lebanese architect and his firm, YTAA, that will represent Lebanon at the 20th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. The project centers on a question as simple in its formulation as it is...
