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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.

Ongoing.

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MIXED-USE #latourstory July 22, 2024