Lina Ghotmeh   Lebanon   Lording over the rooftops of the Lebanese capital is a residential tower, a stony presence which is a high-rise interpretation of the city’s complex history and chaotic allure. An unscathed survivor of the devastating explosion that befell the nearby

Lina Ghotmeh   Estonia   In the country’s cultural capital, an ethnograhic center founded in 1909 moves into a long container that aspires to be a symbol of national prosperity in the wake of regained independence. The project questioned the competition rules and called for

Lina Ghotmeh   France   This facility in Louviers, Normandy, accommodates 260 crafters of artisanal bags, small leather goods, and equestrian items like saddles and harnesses for the luxury brand Hermès. The project of the Lebanese-French architect Lina Ghotmeh is based on

Lina Ghotmeh   United Kingdom   Open to the public from 9 June to 29 October is the temporary pavilion of the popular Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London. For this summer the commission went to the Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh (Beirut, 1980), who designed a round

Lina Ghotmeh   Canada   Like a built palimpsest, a long volume enclosed with imprinted glass is suspended between existing buildings. Behind the facade, different spaces for art open up to life and social interaction, weaving a mesh of connections with the surroundings...

Lina Ghotmeh   China   Through its hypostyle envelope, the museum sets a physical, visual, and spatial relationship with the built city and nature. The complex adopts several scales, dividing it into precise pieces that rest sensitively on the landscaped fabric...

Lina Ghotmeh   Saudi Arabia   The museums’ architecture acts as a magnet, drawing people into a promenade that starts at the grand spiral entrance. This spatial journey takes inspiration from stories that shed light on the relationship between the sun and the moon or between wate

Lina Ghotmeh   Italy   Echoing the ruins of Beirut invaded by nature, the tower symbolizes the resilient and optimistic emergence of life with large openings that reveal lush gardens, bringing nature into the heart of the dwellings and into the city...

Lina Ghotmeh   Lebanon   The new building stands out in the complex urban fabric of Beirut for its striking form and materiality. Much of the floor area of the museum is occupied by a garden plaza that becomes an open gathering place by the inner facade...

Lina Ghotmeh   Lebanon   A monumental marble volume is tucked into the terrain, adjusting to the stepped contours of the land to expand the access to the museum’s excavated galleries. This piece is also a walkable outdoor platform to contemplate the landscape...

Lina Ghotmeh   Ukraine   The design of the museum unfolds as a progressive extension of the surrounding streets, the same ones which gathered people during the Maidan revolution; a continuous and active promenade transforms the museum into a public ground along its elevation

Lina Ghotmeh   Finland   The building seeks to reconcile the history of the city with its inhabitants, opening up to its environs through a facade raised with bright red bricks that pays tribute to what in the past was one of the most important textile factories of Tampere..

Lina Ghotmeh   France   The precision needed for traditional hand-crafted leather goods is reflected in the building’s making. Large brick arches shape both the outer perimeter and the facade onto the courtyard, creating generous windows that fill workshops with sunlight...

Lina Ghotmeh   France   The former Masséna Station and the area surrounding it will form a complex governed by a circular economy and a sustainable food system. Residents and visitors can participate in all the cycles, from planting to producing and composting. The ramps we

Lina Ghotmeh   France   The design of the winery emerges as an expression of an attachment to the dark Anjou stone of the site’s ground; to the fragility of the Bel Argus butterfly, a species native to the area; and to the immersive emotional experience of visiting the site

The caravan is the country of Lina Ghotmeh. Like the Leo Africanus portrayed by his compatriot Amin Maalouf, the Lebanese-born France-based architect has lived an itinerant life between East and West, going from the Beirut of her birth to the Paris o

Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, has been selected to conceive the 22nd Pavilion. Ghotmeh’s Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South in June 2023.  This pioneering and prestigious commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha

Lina Ghotmeh Every two years the Schelling Architecture Foundation, based in Karlsruhe (Germany), grants the Schelling Award for Architecture and Architectural Theory, which comes with a 30,000-euro prize, to recognize “future-oriented developments i

Lina Ghotmeh has just been granted the Schelling Architecture Prize 2020. Awarded every two years, the Prize recognizes future-oriented developments in architecture. It has previously been awarded to Diébédo Francis Kéré in 2014, Anne Lacaton & J