The open-air theatre with the cylinder-shaped tower, which was supposed to host a restaurant, and the boomerang-shaped gateway arch in the background at the Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon - designed in 1962 by the Brazilian star-architect Oscar Niemeyer, but never finished. Photographed in October 2018 during the contemporary art exhibition "CYCLES OF COLLAPSING PROGRESS".›
Rachid Karami International Fair

Oscar Niemeyer

Exterior · Tripoli, Lebanon

Photo: RomanDeckert · 2018-10-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3264×2448

The open-air theatre with the cylinder-shaped tower, which was supposed to host a restaurant, and the boomerang-shaped gateway arch in the background at the Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon - designed in 1962 by the Brazilian star-architect Oscar Niemeyer, but never finished. Photographed in October 2018 during the contemporary art exhibition "CYCLES OF COLLAPSING PROGRESS".

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