page_title: Nadim Karam
section_title: Architectural work
hierarchical_section_title: Nadim Karam / Architectural work
caption_attribution_description: English: Cloud Project by Nadim Karam &amp; Atelier Hapsitus
context_page_description: Nadim Karam; is a multidisciplinary Lebanese artist, painter, sculptor and architect who fuses his artistic output of sculpture, painting, drawing with his background in architecture to create large-scale urban art projects in different cities of the world. He uses his vocabulary of forms in urban settings to narrate stories and evoke collective memory with a very particular whimsical, often absurdist approach; seeking to 'create moments of dreams' in different cities of the world.
context_section_description: Nadim Karam is mainly known for his conceptual work, like 'Hilarious Beirut', the 1993 post-war anti-establishment project for the reconstruction of Beirut city centre, and 'The Cloud', a huge public garden resembling a raincloud that stands at 250m above ground. Inspired by the city of Dubai, it proposes a visual and social alternative to the exclusivity of the skyscrapers in Gulf cities. Karam's signature un-built projects include the 'Net Bridge' a pedestrian bridge conceived as a gateway to Beirut city centre from the marina with five lanes that playfully intersect and interweave. Similarly, his winning design of a competition for the BLC Bank headquarters for Beirut features the new headquarters straddling the old. Karam collaborates closely with Arup Engineers in London, who give structural and technical reality to his most unusual ideas.
caption: Cloud Project by Nadim Karam & Atelier Hapsitus
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