Herzog & de Meuron builds a tower of vertically layered luxury apartments

A tower of stacked concrete plates seems to break the rule of faceless apartment blocks that are being erected in central Beirut as part of a desperate attempt to rebuild the city following the devastation caused by the 2005 assassination of late
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