District//S, Beirut

This new insertion on the edge of Beirut's old city will have twenty-two buildings, primarily residential and with active commercial ground floor uses. They are contemporary, but they also feel local with traces of the cosmopolitan cultural influences that have shaped Beirut. The spaces in between the buildings are given as much importance as the buildings themselves. A complex layering of pedestrianised places provides the setting for the social life that is common to a Mediterranean city.

The urban landscape at ground, terrace and rooftop levels features gardens and green landscaping, marble sculptures and decorative public water features.

The project is currently under construction.

While employed at Allies and Morrison Architects, Ulla Tervo worked on this project as a lead designer of parts of the urban landscape and as one of the designers of the facades and rooftop gardens.