APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 16 July 2021. Four Palestinians who completed bachelor's degrees in architecture at Birzeit University in the West Bank won first place in an international competition for the design and reconstruction of the destroyed Port of Beirut in Lebanon.
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The 2021 Phoenix Prize is given by iDAR-Jerusalem, a Palestinian nonprofit organization that promotes architecture by identifying and celebrating innovative and outstanding design ideas. Its Haifa Award for Design and Architecture
On May 17, the jury announced that the project titled “The Aftermath: Productive Beirut” won first prize.
The project was submitted by the Palestinian team named MAD Architects, which included two young women and a young man. Another 13 projects were submitted from entrants in the United States, Russia, Poland, Palestine, Israel, Italy, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Bahrain, Portugal, China and Lebanon.
The Russian team won second place and the Italian team won third.
The explosion of Warehouse No. 12 on Aug. 4, 2020, killed nearly 200 people, injured more than 6,000 and caused massive material damage to residential buildings and commercial establishments.
The Swiss Ammann Engineering company reported in April, “These silos are leaning at a rate of two millimeters per day, which is a lot from a structural point of view.” It explained, “By means of comparison, the Tower of Pisa in Italy was leaning by about five millimeters per year before it was stabilized by special engineering procedures.”
The grain silos make up a massive concrete structure 48 meters tall with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons. They have become a symbol of the catastrophic explosion, as they absorbed much of the devastating blast, thus protecting the western part of the capital from the level of destruction that befell the eastern part.
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RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 16 July 2021. Four Palestinians who completed bachelor's degrees in architecture at Birzeit University in the West Bank won first place in an international competition for the design and reconstruction of the destroyed Port of Beirut in Lebanon. 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Alaa Abu Awad. 0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Majd al-Maliki. 0.3 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Mees Bani Odeh. STORYLINE The 2021 Phoenix Prize is given by iDAR-Jerusalem, a Palestinian nonprofit organization that promotes architecture by identifying and celebrating innovative and outstanding design ideas. Its Haifa Award for Design and Architecture On May 17, the jury announced that the project titled “The Aftermath: Productive Beirut” won first prize. The project was submitted by the Palestinian team named MAD Architects, which included two young women and a young man. Another 13 projects were submitted from entrants in the United States, Russia, Poland, Palestine, Israel, Italy, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Bahrain, Portugal, China and Lebanon. The Russian team won second place and the Italian team won third. The explosion of Warehouse No. 12 on Aug. 4, 2020, killed nearly 200 people, injured more than 6,000 and caused massive material damage to residential buildings and commercial establishments. The Swiss Ammann Engineering company reported in April, “These silos are leaning at a rate of two millimeters per day, which is a lot from a structural point of view.” It explained, “By means of comparison, the Tower of Pisa in Italy was leaning by about five millimeters per year before it was stabilized by special engineering procedures.” The grain silos make up a massive concrete structure 48 meters tall with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons. They have become a symbol of the catastrophic explosion, as they absorbed much of the devastating blast, thus protecting the western part of the capital from the level of destruction that befell the eastern part. Footage by/APAwire
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