5 Buildings That Show the Power of Modernist Architecture
Oscar Niemeyer was commissioned by the Lebanese government in 1963 to design the Rashid Karami International Fair complex in Tripoli, an exhibition center that was permanently stalled in 1975 at the outbreak of the country's civil war. The site features 15 structures, each with its own playfully distinctive shape, and each falling into disrepair. They include various shapes like a parabolic arch, a dome, a ridged cone, and a spaceship-like platform. Now simultaneously regarded as ruins and as a modernist masterpiece, the somewhat eerie ...
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