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Karim Nader Studio
169 Arz Street
Beirut
Lebanon

The Peak / October 9, 2020 by Karim Nader

On a steep site with red rocks, a house reaches a new height, in rust concrete, stone and desert-like landscape.

Unbuilt.

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HOUSE #thepeakstory September 30, 2022

Generations / October 8, 2020 by Karim Nader

In Kfifan, a house multi-layers from generation to generation. It now wants to extend its life by looking forward.

Unbuilt.

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HOUSE #kfifanstory September 30, 2022

Le Cèdre Alchimiste / August 29, 2020 by Karim Nader

Produced for Green Cedar Lebanon 2020, Le Cèdre Alchimiste is a large glass that symbolizes the cedar mythology in an alchemy from ashes to enlightenment.

Built.

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DESIGN October 09, 2020

Around an Acacia / July 10, 2020 by Karim Nader

The Jorejick family in Getamock Tanzania is looking for a home. To make a house as an embrace, they draw two L’s in a circle around an Acacia tree.

Competition. (Shortlisted)

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HOUSE #jorejickstory January 08, 2021

The Glass House / June 1, 2020 by Karim Nader

Confronted with the vernacular context of the rural, the glass house seeks a new expression in a contradictory hybrid of high and low-technologies.

Built.

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HOUSE #glasshousestory June 21, 2022

Al Shati' Mall / March 20, 2020 by Karim Nader

Horizontal gardens and ethereal suspended terraces compose the music of this mall with a soul on the eastern shore of Dammam.

Competition.

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COMMERCIAL #alsmallstory June 29, 2020

La Tour / February 24, 2020 by Karim Nader

Reminiscing Jaques Tati, Eileen Grey and Erich Mendelsohn, a second life for the 1949 modernist tower by Edgard Sisto in Caracas, Beirut.

Ongoing.

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MIXED-USE #latourstory September 15, 2025

Camera Obscura / November 6, 2019 by Karim Nader

For its first venture in Saudi Arabia, Art Jameel is seeking an avant-garde cinema theater. Camera Obscura is our experimental proposal on architecture and the cinematic across time and space.

Competition. (3rd Prize)

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CULTURAL #jameelstory June 21, 2022

The Crystal Fortress / September 27, 2019 by Karim Nader

Transcending its painful past, the Tauras Hilltop in Vilnius becomes the stage for a contemporary fortress of crystal in celebration of music, nature and national freedom.

Competition.

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CULTURAL #vilniusstory September 30, 2022

The Black Vault / August 9, 2019 by Karim Nader

Architecture in the place of ruin, a family burial in a Christian cemetery of Beirut revisits tombstone as concept while it opens as a monumental steel doorway.

Built.

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DESIGN #marmitrstory January 14, 2020

Reviving NPAK / July 5, 2019 by Karim Nader

NPAK is a contemporary art institution in Yerevan, Armenia in need for an overhaul. Our shortlisted competition entry demonstrates how to awaken the bronze giant.

Competition. (Shortlisted)

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CULTURAL #NPAKStory November 10, 2019

Centroplex / June 16, 2019 by Karim Nader

Centroplex, the cineplex of Centro Mall, invites the spectators to notice the creation of their own cinema.  

Ongoing.

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CULTURAL #centroplexstory December 28, 2020

House in Siegritz / April 16, 2019 by Karim Nader

Or how to grow a Lebanese family in a traditional German village.

Unbuilt.

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HOUSE #siegritzstory November 10, 2019

Banque du Liban CMA / December 18, 2018 by Karim Nader

Saving the BDL-CMA building from demolition engages issues of modernity and security in the Beiruti urban context.

Built.

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INSTITUTIONAL November 27, 2022

The House of Small / September 20, 2018 by Karim Nader

The house presented at the Beirut Design Fair 2018 is not a house. It is the model of a house at scale 1/1.

Built.

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DESIGN #houseofsmall November 10, 2019

Saifi Penthouse / September 18, 2018 by Karim Nader

Returning from his Amchit abode, he now seeks to transform his Saifi duplex into an urban villa with multi-directional views and vertical transparency.

Built.

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APARTMENT December 26, 2020

NINETEEN84 / August 21, 2018 by Karim Nader

Office by day, installation by night, the NINETEEN84 headquarters play at doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde.

Built.

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COMMERCIAL #nineteen84story January 10, 2025

Anthony / July 9, 2018 by Karim Nader

With cubist references and a modernist streak, Anthony draws his apartment in contemporary texture and awaited darkness.

Built.

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APARTMENT #anthonystory May 02, 2021

The Nocturne Majlis / June 22, 2018 by Karim Nader

The Art of Dining 2018: sitting in tradition within our contemporary neuroses.

Built.

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DESIGN #nocturnemajlis November 10, 2019

The Tower of Winds / June 6, 2018 by Karim Nader

Or how to transform Beirut scaffolds into a vertical garden experience.

Unbuilt.

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DESIGN #windstory April 07, 2021
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