Head of Nabil Gholam Architecture and Planning

E What is the current state of office architecture? I have worked on a variety of very large and complex projects in Europe. I came to Lebanon in 1994, when the country was an architectural backwater after the war, with apartments being converted to working spaces, with no science or knowledge. Anybody who did any decent floors that had some light and space thought they were doing a fantastic office building. There were a couple of office buildings in Solidere, like Atrium and An-Nahar. These are rather ordinary working spaces that don’t exploit all the potential of the sort of working machine that you can develop when you do an office space, where people can be very effective. It is obvious that for productivity and the simple human fact that you are going to spend most of your living time inside a box, it might as well offer you certain