2024-05-05T19:15:57-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/144537572/a-real-phoenician Nam Henderson 2015-12-30T00:44:00-05:00 >2015-12-30T10:22:38-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/uc/ucwta358v73fp99b.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The architect David Adjaye had designed a $100 million building with a facade of red ceramic tiles, combining a high-end mall and a separate exhibition space...Some art critics said displaying the collection in a wing of a mall eroded the line between art and commerce.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Rachel Donadio reports from the&nbsp;grand opening of the Aishti Foundation, a private museum in Beirut,&nbsp;designed by the architect David Adjaye.&nbsp;</p><p>Earlier&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/ChrisPerrodin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christopher Perrodin</a> had <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/142310718/imagining-a-museum-without-walls" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">questioned</a> why the project wasn't "<em>on anyone's radar?? &nbsp;We see a fusion of commercial and culture within one project...may not be THE way forward, but I feel it is definitely a unique way of bringing a broader public into proximity to high culture</em>".&nbsp;</p>