The Coop, 2019

Before 1975, the shop owners in the central Beirut markets would rent their shop windows and doors to street vendors who sold counterfeit jeans, cassettes and electronics. During the two-year civil war, the market was uprooted, and the street vendors relocated, setting up their tin kiosks along the waterfront of the corniche in Raouché. Later, during the Israeli invasion in 1982, the vendors had to evacuate the area, and in response, 575 of the street vendors formed a cooperative to raise money for the construction of the Raouché Market. They planned to build this market in a new residential and commercial neighbourhood in the south of the city. The newly designed building would have had 600 units and housed all the scattered shops and stalls. However, the construction was brought to a halt in 1986 with a campaign against the privatisation of the market. With one façade slanted while the other two are straight, the distinctive design of this building renders it both conspicuous and noticeably incomplete. (Text from SAF)

Monument for the Living, 2002-2008

Too tall to knock down, too dense to implode, Burj al-Murr (Murr tower) is a standing monument to the Lebanese civil war.
Located on the outskirts of the central district in Beirut, this landmark building was intended to be a commercial center with offices, cinemas, parking and shops. One of the tallest in the city, it stands thirsty-four stories high with four underground levels and is punctured by one hundred and ten windows.
In 1975, the civil war broke out and the work on the Murr Tower came to a halt, never to be completed. For the next two years, the skeleton of the building served as a strategic location in the frontline taking part in the infamous "Hotels War".
After this battle, the division of the city was officially established and the tower served various militias that occupied it. Prominently situated, the high floors were used as observation, sniping, and shelling points while the basements housed jails and ammunition storage.
In 2001, ten years after the cease-fire, the building was still dysfunctional due to structural problems.
In 2005, the Lebanese army occupied the tower as a military station point after the assassination of Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
In 2016, the tower became a permanent armory.