Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury has refurbished Beirut's underground bunker nightclub B018, adding spine-shaped lamps that double as dancing poles.
Khoury gained notoriety for his war-infused designs when the nightclub first opened in 1998. Two decades later he's returned to make it even darker, furnishing it with gothic elements that reference religious architecture and abattoirs.

B018 started out as an underground music night in the 1980s against the backdrop of the Lebanon War.
In the late-1990s Khoury built a permanent home for the club in the industrial Karantina district, the site of a horrific massacre of Palestinian muslims in 1976.
Sunk into the ground like a cross between a military bunker and a mass grave, B018 is covered by a huge circular metal plate roof that resembles a helicopter landing pad.
Most famously, this roof is retractable so clubbers can dance underground yet beneath the open night sky.
"B018 had in its initial setup a very symmetrical plan, reminiscent of religious architecture in many ways," Khoury told Dezeen.
"On the pavement floor, mahogany furniture was placed like musical instruments in a simple orthogonal formation."

Khoury only designed the club to last five years. Now he has given it a complete overhaul, replacing the original wooden furniture with stone booths and podiums.

"The new interior is entirely built with solid stone. Walls, floors, ceilings, furniture are all finished in stone, in complete oppositi...