High contrast: we chart Beirut’s ever-changing architecture scene

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Beirut today is a city of beautiful and fiery contrast. The memory of the violent Lebanese Civil War still haunts the cityscape in the form of bullet-riddled buildings and cavernous voids in the ground, host to either classical ruins or wartime explosions. Then there is the post-war redevelopment scene; shopping malls, clubs, luxury high-rise flats, and ambitious, large scale art museums.

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