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Saturday, March 2, 2013

INSPIRATIONS OF BEIRUT

INSPIRATIONS OF BEIRUT 

Gemayzeh


Nothing prevents you to go further, but you must count  the return journey.
The three main streets invite walking and  put you in good physical and mental health.

That is to say : Gemmayze (Gouraud), the Staircase del'art, Sursock and Fouad Chehab.
No better feeling for Beirut discovery in the morning before starting his day.

I must admit, the Staircase of the Art or Saint Nicolas Stairs, always makes me dreamy.

The things that make the happiness of life are not many, ARCHITECTURE is one of them.

 
You must pass through the stairway of ART once in life

Just true happiness for short
Feel the steps
  chasing you
Feel the wind pass you,
breath of pure oxygen into the city,  that comes from the port in front of you
Feel the art of making something great, but at the same time so simple
Feel tired and the idea that we must at all costs finish the last stair up. 

Yes, it is for the climb that we measure up with the stairs  
Going down THE STAIRS only TEST YOU
Art in Gemayzeh is like heaven on earth

First I want to tell you a story of how art can grow in a dream
Then skip away
Every day
when I sleep
A fairy tale comes to my ears
I try to follow the story line through the night
Till the morning and I draw the scenes

But one night the fairy leap away
My dreams became nightmares
That's why  now I dream of deamons and bones
I enter the world of the death like you enter a pub
In Gemmayzeh
I know it's a dangerous trip
to hell I am dreaming my Artlife
Art seems to lead me to STRANGE routes
I walk in the paths of fear I crawl in the alleys of graves
I nightmare skeletons and corps
I am a vagabond
in the old homes of abandon
I am in the land of oblivion
I spend my nighttime with limbs
I can't dream nice fairies any more
I fly over Beirut
between the crambling old homes,
concreat and iron towers
The streets are getting crowded
CRAWLING corps crawl back to their graves
But I sleep like a dead till the morne

Sunday, February 17, 2008

ART IN BEIRUT NO MORE

NO MORE ART IN BEIRUT!

  A City like Beirut must be an art city
  Architecture must be the heart of this city
  A tourist coming to Beirut wants something special
  Is it art music architecture?

  I want to travel to see the main features in a foreign town
  It's main architectural attractions ,it's main cultural museums and spots
 All cities of the world have their traditional features preserved
 Can we preserve ours?

  When the first huge building was constructed it was something new
 Tell me why buildings are now constructed huge in Beirut
 Is it an urge to settle down
 I doubt it
 Why ugly buildings are rising up like trash
 Can you tell me who is affording the price  of this trash  for 300 000 $ per flat?
  Is there art in Beirut: no
  Is there something else: yes
  And the answer is simple: stupid behavior

  And Stupid political call to construction
  Construction
  The dream of every human being
  Constructing towns like the suburbs
  Even  constructing like any suburb
  Worth : constructing the heart of this beautiful city
  As the worsiest urban suburb of  Europe
 
   Or any other Arab contry
   Exept  for sure  the Emirates

   The Signs of Stupidity are here:

                    THIS IS A TRADITIONAL STREET
  
   Where are the traditional homes?

   It is true that Beirut have a huge number of architects coming up the 60 universities
  
 If this is what they where tought to do there, it 's a complete Stupid Mess
 
   Are you aware of what you are doing Architects!
    OUR  arab brothers in Dubai have solved this:
   For the first time They turned stupid arab thinking to intelligence:
    If we need to construct new  We must construct Original

   Stupid Lebanese Thinking didn't bother find out other than the collonial red house to preserve:
  
There are buildings in Beirut from the 1900 the early times where concreate was used in an arty way
   There are buildings from the Art Nouveau mouvement where a brease of nostalgy can still pass threw the trees of eucalyptus
   There  are the 1940 1950 1960 styles :
    The retro style which is demolished to rize a trash or simply a parking!

    Who is doing this?:
            the UMPP
         Uncultered Monitised Political Persons

    This is simply what is demolishing the sites of Beirut:

     The money of  non-lebanese
      The money of the non cultered persons
     And The stupidity of  the persons that have money to spend on anything trash

      Birut my Friends is becoming the trash depot of Architecture

              The Dump place of Cement

        The "cimentation" of stupidity in the brain of it's constructors

 Why am I taklking about politics Here?
        Simply because we are talking about things that politicians are endorsing all day long

       Don't forget we are not the third world
        We are lowest
        We are the savage race that is cannibaling our culture
        WE DON'T  go after progress  any more
       We are masking progress here in our Town :
          It is called  the stupid face of progress
         Students don't go to other so called 3d world contries to find out how they became and how is making them like this
       Study here in Beirut the transformation of this town and afterwards of this contry to the ugliest 3d world contry of Civilisation
 in the 21 century

       One thing is for sure :
 AT THE PACE THINGS ARE GOING NOW  bEIRUT WILL BE THE DEFORMATION OF WHAT ARCHITECTS HAVE LEARNED NOT TO DO.
        THE SHAMELESS FACE OF WHAT THINGS SHOULD NOT END UP
      THE ONLY PLACE ON EARTH WITH "FUTURISTIC VIEW":
                          HOW TO TURN A ONCE ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL TOWNS ON EARTH
 TO THE TRASH DUMP OF ARCHITECTURE OF THE 21 CENTURY.

         In fact Beirut will surely be one place of a kind;
  an open studio to shoot new versions of  the suburbs movies of the 1980's

          And there is no way to escape this apocaliptic view

        Architecture  is here right in front of our eyes
        Architecture apocalypse or should I say the  vision of the Vision of Saint john turned real
Concreate Apocalypse
        HERE in Beirut