Nabil Gholam is a Lebanese

Lebanese people

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 architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 whose firm, Nabil Gholam Architecture & Planning (NGAP), is one of the few widely recognized young architecture firms in the Middle East

Middle East

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 region.

Among other distinctions, NGAP won the all-categories Best of Show Award of the MIPIM

MIPIM

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 / Architectural Review

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 Future Projects Awards for the year 2006, for the urban project of Doha Gardens in Khobar

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, Saudi Arabia

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Born in Beirut

Beirut

Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

 in 1962, Gholam studied architecture

Architecture

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 in Paris

Paris

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 and worked with Ricardo Bofill

Ricardo Bofill

Ricardo Bofill, also Ricard Bofill Leví is a Catalan Spanish postmodernist architect.He studied at the School of Architecture in Geneva, Switzerland...

 until 1994, when he returned to Lebanon

Lebanon

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 and founded NGAP. Since then he has built prominent projects mainly in Lebanon

Lebanon

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 and the Arab world

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. In 1996 he married Ana Corbero

Ana Corbero

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, the Catalan

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-born visual artist.

In Beirut, his buildings and approved projects include Platinum Tower

Platinum Tower (Beirut)

Platinum Tower is a highrise residential building currently the tallest in Beirut, Lebanon. It occupies a large plot on the Saint George Bay Marina, and will be connected to the marina in the future by a pedestrian bridge. This luxury tower was a 'Hourie Development' project, designed by Ricardo...

 in the Beirut Marina

Marina

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 (with Ricardo Bofill

Ricardo Bofill

Ricardo Bofill, also Ricard Bofill Leví is a Catalan Spanish postmodernist architect.He studied at the School of Architecture in Geneva, Switzerland...

); parts of the Saifi Village

Saifi Village

Saifi Village, commonly referred to as Le Quartier des Arts, is a residential upscale neighbourhood in Beirut, Lebanon. Saifi Village is located at the southeastern periphery of Centre Ville...

 and Beirut Gate developments adjacent to Martyrs' Square; the master plan for the redevelopment of the Wadi Abu Jamil

Wadi Abu Jamil

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 neighborhood; several other projects in the Solidere

Solidere

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 area; and the Irani-Oxy

Occidental Petroleum

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 Engineering Complex of the American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...

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Nabil is a judge at next months prestigious World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, from the 3 - 5 November, wwww.worldarchitecturefestival.com

External links

• NGAP Official Website