Beit Beirut

Occupying a prime spot on the demarcation line known as the Green Line, the thoroughfare that split the city in two during the Civil War, this bullet- and rocket-ravaged Ottoman skeleton of a building has been declared the House of Beirut—a cultural center and home to the Museum of the City’s memory. It was used as a base for snipers during the war and serves as a unique testament to how residential architecture gave way to “war architecture.”