Yacoubian Building (Beirut)

This article is about Yacoubian building in Beirut. For the Yacoubian building in Cairo or other uses of the same name, see Yacoubian Building (disambiguation).

The Yacoubian building is a prominent commercial and residential edifice in Beirut, Lebanon. The building is located in Caracas neighborhood of Ras Beirut,[1][2] in a prominent coastal strip of the Lebanese capital Beirut. The building belonged to a wealthy Lebanese Armenian named Yacoub Yacoubian.

The edifice is an enormous 10-story, double-bloc building with 140 flats. Unlike the colonial style of Cairo's Yacoubian Building, Beirut's counterpart comes shaped like a U-turn, copying the style of Le Corbusier.[3] The building was famous for hosting a great number of artists, including singer Fayza Ahmed and comedian Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy. One floor underground was the venue of a famous Beirut night club called The Venus. During the Lebanese Civil War the Venus closed its doors and the Yacoubian building declined.[3]

The then-chic and now run-down famous Beirut edifice is a metaphor of Beirut's old architectural heritage and is subjet of Spectrice (Yacoubian Building, Beirut) display and work of art[4] commissioned in 2006-2008 and made of non-shrinking grout, aluminium, glass, fabric.

Beirut's Yacoubian Building is not to be confused with an equally important dominant edifice in Cairo, Egypt, called Yacoubian Building belonging to Hagop Yacoubian.

References

  1. ↑ zad-Hye.com: Yacoubian Building in Beirut
  2. ↑ Photo of The Yacoubian Building, Beirut on flickr
  3. 1 2 Beirut's real-life version of 'The Yacoubian Building' By John Ehab, The Daily Star (Lebanon) November 11, 2006
  4. ↑ Spectre work of art, replica of the Yacoubian Beirut Building

Coordinates: 33°53′43″N 35°28′24″E / 33.89528°N 35.47333°E / 33.89528; 35.47333

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