Sara El Masri

Beirut’s diversity ranges because of its 5,000+ year history with the Phoenicians, Romans, Greeks, and Ottomans, who left their architectural imprints all over Lebanon and are seen today. A well-known fact about the city was that it was destroyed and rebuilt eight times. However, its growth was hindered by the 15-year civil war, which took place from 1975 until 1990. Afterward, Beirut was significantly reconstructed, but traces of the war remain.

Nowadays, there are all kinds of words merging each other: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality or Mixed Reality. There is also one term that is floating around and making it all more confusing: Extended Reality. But what really are all those terms? Let’s clarify. Also, see XR Lab by WindsorPatania presents a cutting-edge design for next-generation education.

Dominating the Cotai Strip’s skyline, the Morpheus Hotel, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, stands tall as the centerpiece of the City of Dreams in Cotai Strip, Macau, China. Marking the dawn of a new style of architecture, the Morpheus Hotel is a unique composition of steel and glass, all encased in an elegant white diagrid shell. The Morpheus Hotel was developed as a tower-like never before, authentic to its time and place and embodying a vision like no other.