A SHRINE TO THE CITY
Beirut, Lebanon
2025
20 sqm
Public Intervention
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Ieva Saudergaite - TakeOver Gallery
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the space is open for you and to the city:
Enter it
Pause in it
Inhabit it
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To mark two years of Takeover in this very place, the architect returns—not to reclaim, but to reframe.
This temporary architectural intervention proposes a new kind of urban threshold—one that dissolves the binary between gallery and street, private and public, form and flux.
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By engaging architects in dialogue with this spatial condition—and inviting the public to step into that conversation—the installation prompts reflection on the evolving role of architecture in cities marked by fragmentation, transition, and resilience.
It invites gallerists to engage architects not just as designers, but as cultural producers—those who shape spatial narratives with the same intentionality as artists. In turn, architects are offered the gallery as a medium: a site for experimentation, dialogue, and visibility.
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The intervention is shaped by a deep attentiveness to context—social, spatial, and cultural. It works within conditions of constraint to extract latent meaning, material resonance, and new forms of engagement. Here, ambiguity is not a limit but a lens.