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Karim Nader Studio
169 Arz Street
Beirut
Lebanon

The Orchard / December 15, 2020 by Karim Nader

Or how to return to the homeland to dwell in the fruitful south of Lebanon.

Ongoing.

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HOUSE #orchardstory September 30, 2022

On the Rocks / December 1, 2020 by Karim Nader

It is on and within shades of natural and man-made greys that he seeks to retreat.

Built.

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HOUSE #ontherocksstory June 21, 2022

10 Schools Repair / October 23, 2020 by Karim Nader

As part of the relief efforts for rebuilding Beirut, the studio teams up with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation to repair 10 schools in Beirut.

Built.

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INSTITUTIONAL #SDCStory April 20, 2023

Maison de Poupée / October 21, 2020 by Karim Nader

Moving in Beirut as the stage-set for living within miniature doll houses

Unbuilt.

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APARTMENT October 21, 2020

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.

Built.

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MIXED-USE #latourstory February 14, 2026

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
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