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    Project entry 2014 Africa Middle East - Evergreen City: Urban pine forest rehabilitation, Beirut, Lebanon

    The Lebanese coast is an urban concrete jungle with very limited green spaces and few public parks that cater for the wellbeing of the urban dwellers. The Beirut Pine Forest is centrally located in the city and can be easily accessible through main roads. It is surrounded by different functions such as residential, office, educational, cultural, and religious precincts. Softscape, an urban project starting from Downtown Beirut will have the Beirut Pine Forest as its final stop.

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    Project entry 2014 Africa Middle East - Evergreen City: Urban pine forest rehabilitation, Beirut, Lebanon

    This zone offers learning pathways and open fields to host different events.

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    Project entry 2014 Africa Middle East - Evergreen City: Urban pine forest rehabilitation, Beirut, Lebanon

    This zone is the greenest area of the forest and where families can meet in the proposed program.

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    Project entry 2014 Africa Middle East - Evergreen City: Urban pine forest rehabilitation, Beirut, Lebanon

    This zone has a program that incorporates everything from a city that is not a building or a road.

As one of the three main Holcim Awards winners for Africa Middle East in 2014, “Evergreen City” automatically qualified as a finalist in the Global Holcim Awards 2015. All 15 finalist project teams were asked to submit an updated and more comprehensive entry that was evaluated by a global jury in March 2015.

Last updated: March 05, 2015 Beirut, Lebanon

As one of the three main Holcim Awards winners for Africa Middle East in 2014, “Evergreen City” automatically qualified as a finalist in the Global Holcim Awards 2015. All 15 finalist project teams were asked to submit an updated and more comprehensive entry that was evaluated by a global jury in March 2015.

View project entry posters - Global Holcim Awards

The results of the global phase of the 4th Holcim Awards competition were announced on April 20, 2015.

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