INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY AWARDS
Lebanon & Morocco Official airline partner
BEST INTERNATIONAL RETAIL ARCHITECTURE Centerfalls by Design International BEST RETAIL ARCHITECTURE ARABIA Centerfalls by Design International
BEST RETAIL ARCHITECTURE LEBANON Centerfalls by Design International
BEST RETAIL ARCHITECTURE MOROCCO Mall Of Tangier by Design International
Design International is a global
population, is destined to become one of
architecture practice with over 45 years
the most popular leisure destinations in
of award-winning history and offices in
Lebanon and will offer a spectacular view
London, Milan, Cairo, Mumbai Shanghai
across an infinity pool overlooking the
and Jakarta. Centerfalls (formerly
city of Beirut and the sea.
Metn.Point) is the first designer
Tangier is currently undergoing a
resort in Lebanon. Currently under
large-scale regeneration, with the port
construction in Beirut, the shopping and
area being redeveloped into an entire
entertainment destination is scheduled
new city district. Mall of Tangier will
to open in spring 2016. Centerfalls is
become a new landmark building that
a project of international superlatives,
will act as the architectural centrepiece
including the largest waterfall ever built
of the port redevelopment. The
in a shopping destination.
project’s concept is based on a rational
Situated in a stunning location on
geometry that started with the form
top of a hill in the Metn area, just outside
of a perfect square with very sharp
of Beirut, the building was designed
corners, aiming to bring the cubic
as a natural extension of the hill with
structure of the old medina right down
ascending sweeping terraces that will
to the sea. This basic shape was then
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give the project a natural and organic
refined into a ‘sculpted diamond’, that
22 Stukeley Street,
look. The roof terrace, where a nightclub
has literally been plugged into the
London WC2B 5LR,
will cater for Beirut’s young and trendy
ground like an inverted pyramid.
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