WORKac has unveiled its design for the Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon, which features a facade of mismatched balconies that will be used to exhibit artwork.
The museum is described as "one of the most significant developments for Lebanese art and culture in a generation", and will sit in the capital city's new Museum Mile.
"Beirut Museum of Art (BeMA) will be centrally located in the heart of Beirut," explained New York-based WORKac.
"It is positioned on a symbolic site in the city that once marked the dividing line in the Lebanese civil war ? now to be transformed into a site of unification".

BeMA will take a cube-shaped form, wrapped by seventy "Mediterranean" style balconies, and made from stone and glass fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC) cladding. WORKac's intention is that art will "spill out" onto the balconies, as well as creating meeting spaces ? creating "a new type of flexible exhibition space".

"By blurring the lines between the interior and the exterior, the porous facade dissolves the traditionally closed white cube gallery model," added the architect.
"BeMA will invite the public to engage directly with the work, creating new and varied possibilities for encounters and dialogue with the art as well as amongst its visitors."

BeMA will have six storeys above ground, and four below. It will feature 2,700-square-metres of dedicated exhibition space, and will house a permanent coll...