JURY

To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose.

Saliba Architects is an award-winning architectural firm located in Beirut, Lebanon.
It has extensive experience in several building types spanning both the private and public sectors.
Restaurants, bars and family homes are a few of the building types Saliba Architects has been
directly involved with, resulting in successful projects that the clients and building users found
enjoyable to occupy.

At Saliba Architects, we value beauty, efficiency, logic, pure expression of materials, and clean
lines and forms that allow the architecture- the space, light, materials, spatial relationships - and
its inhabitants to thrive. The result is an architecture that is current but timeless, serene yet warm,
and uniquely reflective of the values and characters of our clients. Saliba Architects offers the
following services as part of our program. Building Design - Interior Design – Landscapes –
Product Design – Furniture Selection – Experimental Installations – 3D Rendering.

Our Process
Idea & Start
Design & Crate
Build & Finish

Joy Alexandre is a co-founder of JYH International Architects. JYH was founded by Architects Joy Alexandre Harb & Yanna Haddad, both having initiated their studies at the Lebanese American University in Lebanon. After graduating with Honors, their quest to get more involved with advanced architecture led them to Barcelona, the capital of Architecture & Design. It is at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) that they received their Master’s degree alongside all the passion for innovation-oriented architecture, and enough imagination to shape the future of cities. Our vision evolves around advanced technologies with the idea of space adapting to the need. We focus on exploring the effect of this technology in our daily life and how it helps shape the architecture we live in. By doing so, we can simulate the feelings intended in the space, and create comfort or any other desired emotion. Hence the choice of the architecture reflects directly on one’s lifestyle.

My architecture focuses on the adaptation of each project in its own context with its own particular story. Also, my projects focus on humanity and climate change since architecture is for everyone, not just for privilege people. Therefore, the role of an architect is not only to build for rich and capable people, yet to everyone using specific architectural systems that will adapt to a specific situation. 

Elegance in design is crucial. However, there are many different ingredients assembeled all together in order to result with a good architectural project, and the social aspect is a major part of any project as well as sustainiblity and most importantly, the respect of nature and history. 

In our firm Zein Engineering we focus on several issues in the world such as scarcity of ressources, refugee crisis, displacement, immigration, poverty...etc.Well, Architecture could be the driving force to solve numerous problems in the world.  Also, Zein Eng. is recently commissioning several mega projects in Lebanon and the Gulf countries working with high-end projects and providing the best architecture possible for the client, for the context, and for society.

As an architect I have been always looking for new trends and ideas in architecture, how technology is changing and evolving architecture helping us to see project with a new perspective.