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Beit Beirut

Beit Beirut is a museum and urban cultural center in the restored Barakat Building, a Beirut landmark designed by Youssef Aftimus and later reactivated as a civic memory project.

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1924 / restored 2017

Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Museum and urban cultural center

museum cultural center restoration heritage stone concrete Museum and urban cultural center

Stone Concrete

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Youssef Aftimus

1866-1952 · Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

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Youssef Aftimus was a Lebanese architect, engineer, and planner whose Beirut landmarks helped shape the city’s civic and commercial identity in the early twentieth century.

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