2024-12-22T02:19:28-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149973763/bema-a-new-art-museum-for-beirut Nicholas Korody 2016-10-14T13:08:00-04:00 >2016-10-16T23:00:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/48/481j5gzd66lw8hj7.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Beirut is to get a new modern art museum with a design inspired by Italian campaniles and Arabic minarets. BeMA, the Beirut Museum of Art, will feature a slender tower rising 124 metres into the sky, according to designs by the winner of an architectural competition revealed on Thursday.</p></em><br /><br /><p><em>An international jury has selected the Paris-based Lebanese architect Hala Ward&eacute; to oversee the complex on what the project backers describe as &ldquo;a symbolically charged site that once marked the dividing lines in the Lebanese civil war&rdquo;.</em></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/je/jeisxkt14nxepf9o.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/vf/vfsdac6y30ss7zic.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/t9/t9p8xqj6x95gnvs6.jpg"></p><p>For more from Lebanon and the greater MENA region:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/149949024/one-student-s-solution-to-the-permanent-limbo-of-refugee-camps" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One student's solution to the permanent limbo of refugee camps</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/138357352/the-deans-list-amale-andraos-of-columbia-university-s-gsapp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Deans List: Amale Andraos of Columbia University's GSAPP</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149949087/an-empty-museum-for-a-stateless-people" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">An empty museum for a stateless people</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/147345876/before-after-photos-of-syria-s-devastated-heritage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Before + after photos of Syria's devastated heritage</a></li></ul>