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The Egg in 2018. The Egg, or the Dome, is an unfinished cinema building in Beirut, Lebanon.Its construction began in 1965 but was interrupted with the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 and the horse-shoe shaped dome that remains today is now a landmark in Beirut.
The Ezzedine building, next to Cinema Opera, was the only other building on Martyrs’ Square to be retained after the Lebanon Civil War (1975-1990). Formerly the Royal Hotel, it was restored in 2001 and its original dome rebuilt, in the 2010s, the Al Nahar building was built next to it, across Waygand street.
The new Metropolis Cinema location is located in Beirut’s Mar Mikhael district right across from where the tragic Beirut port blast occurred on Aug. 4, 2020 — one of the biggest non-nuclear ...
Beirut City Center: Among Karam's influential projects was the Beirut City Center. Built in 1966, it was a multi-use complex that included an office building, an egg-shaped cinema and a shopping mall that was at the time the largest in the Middle East. The Beirut City Center was badly damaged during the Lebanese Civil War. In the 1990s, the ...
Shopping stores along vaulted alleys inside the Souks. Beirut Souks (Arabic: أسواق بيروت) is a major commercial district in Beirut Central District.With over 200 shops, 25 restaurants and cafes, an entertainment center, a 14 cinema complex, periodic street markets, and an upcoming department store, it is Beirut's largest and most diverse shopping and leisure area.
The "Shoreline Walk" is a proposes sequence of connected spaces which form part of the reconstruction of the Beirut city centre. Following the 1975–91 Lebanese Civil War in Lebanon, the Beirut city centre was left devastated, Avenue des Français and the coastline had become a dumping ground, extending the land by more than 600m to the north. [14]
The cinema of Lebanon, according to film critic and historian Roy Armes, is the only other cinema in the Arabic-speaking region, beside Egypt's, that could amount to a national cinema. [7] Cinema in Lebanon has been in existence since the 1920s, [ 8 ] and the country has produced more than 500 films.
Beirut City Hall; Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center; Beirut Municipal Stadium; ... Cinema Opera and Ezzeddine Building;