I think some structures, like some art items, are reading silent but noisy manifestos to the world where they stand. In this way, they make the user / audience connected beyond admiring them. It is like a sentence in which we recite the implied words over and over again, a commitment brought by the desire to experience every detail, every ray of light on it, every color and every trace without leaving a single overlooked meaning.

Beit Beirut (The house of Beirut) has one of the most painful conservation stories, besides it is a really successful restoration application. In the middle of the city, it shows us the reality of the civil war after the years.

An inter section between historical and modern… City is watching from the gap that is separated by two period. Elbphilharmonie is a huge structure which is sighted from around the city like a wave.