BLF Bank New Headquarters Competition

  • Mar Mikhael, Lebanon

    Location:

    Mar Mikhael, Lebanon
  • 2,340 sqm

    Area:

    2,340 sqm
  • Competition 2016

    Status:

    Competition 2016
  • Type

    Institutional
  • Built Area

    35,000 sqm
  • Client

    Banque Libano-Française
  • Competition curator

    Luca Molinari
  • Consulting Environmental Engineer

    Paul Vincent & Cedric Chaigneau
  • Consulting Structural Engineer

    Nabil Hennaoui S.A.L
  • Consulting Mechanical Engineer

    Wissam Tawil & Associates / MEP engineers S.A.L
  • Consulting Electrical Engineer

    Wissam Tawil & Associates/MEP engineers S.A.L

Conceptualized as an engine of both urban living and ambiance where landscape, inhabitants, structure and climate work in concert to give a seemingly timeless appearance to the BLF Headquarters.

The BLF Headquarters offers a city turned into architecture. Much like Mies van der Rohe’s Chicago Federal Center or the HSBC Tower in Hong Kong, with ground floor areas dedicated to public use, and the Rockefeller Center in New York where the core of the central plaza of the complex offers a range of cultural activities to the public - all these social amenities are made possible through architectural design. By juxtaposing and combining the situations enabling its structure, the BLF Headquarters create opportunities for truly amazing public spaces. These spaces generate their own flows without interfering with private circulations and spaces. They bestow a particular status and temporality upon this tower rising at the gateway to Beirut.

  • Ground Floor Plan
    Ground Floor Plan
  • 5th Floor Plan
    5th Floor Plan
  • 8th Floor Plan
    8th Floor Plan
  • 15th Floor Plan
    15th Floor Plan
  • Section 1
    Section 1

Comprised of a load-bearing concrete lattice further extended by a metal framework up to a height of 180 meters from the ground and a vertical core for circulation.

Full of life, it engages the city, relating its changing relationship with the world while also ensuring its stability. We see this structure as an independent and poured envelope – Lebanese know-how that we are able to rely on – allowing the content to be open to evolving toward every imaginable modular or singular arrangement.