Yacoubian Building (Beirut)
- This article is about the Beirut edifice Yacoubian building; for other uses, see Yacoubian Building:
- For the Cairo, Egypt edifice of the same name, see Yacoubian Building (Cairo)
Yacoubian building, is a prominent commercial and residential edifice in Beirut, Lebanon, hosting in its hey day, and counting some of the best-known commerces and some of the most renowned celebrities and artists amongst its tenants. The building is located in Caracas neighborhood of Ras Beirut,[1] 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.
The building was famous for hosting a great number of artists including the building was famous for the artists who lived there,including singer Faiza Ahmad and comedian Abdel-Salam al-Nabulsi. One floor underground was the venue of a famous Beirut night club called The Venus.
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[2] 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.
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