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Amal Andraos wins design of BeMA
21-12-2018
Lebanese architect Amal Andraos and her associated firm, WORKac, which she co-founded with American architect Dan Wood, won the competition for designing the planned Beirut Museum of Art (BeMA) in Ashrafieh, Beirut. The latter embraces a garden, a stage, an open public space and a vertical pier to host workshops and art programs. The announcement by BeMA (still under construction) board of directors, came after a month of studies and deliberations. Andraos, the dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, said that, as a Lebanese architect, Beirut is a city that has always been a source of inspiration and imagination. Through this project, Andraos added, “I contemplate the legacy of Beirut the Arab city as an intellectual, artistic and societal project.” She hoped the design will demonstrate an alternate option for the future of cities, for it reveals the cultural prospects made available by the integration of arts, architecture and landscape. (L’Orient Le Jour, December 20, 2018)
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