Oscar from Tripoli

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Oscar Niemeyer (December 15, 1907 – December 5, 2012), may you rest in peace.

In the 70's you were invited to build a project in Tripoli, Lebanon. You have stayed there over a month, rethinking the city's scape to bridge the old city to the sea-side via a modern social urban space. The project was an economic and social plan from the lebanese government to revive the city of Tripoli and draw more business out of Beirut, the capital, and stabilyze a region already in a deep social and confessional crisis.
Like most things in Lebanon, the project started after so much compromises and false promesses that it was empty of its initial beneficial substance. Work were never completed. The war started...

This series of photographs was realised in 2010. Some of the images have been used for book covers, press articles and photo exhibitions.

The following info are extracts from Wikipedia.org - The International Fair of Tripoli site, formally known as the Rachid Karami International Exhibition Center, is a complex of buildings designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. The site was built for a World's Fair event to be held in the city, but construction was halted in 1975 due to the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war, and never resumed. The site contains 15 semi-completed Niemeyer buildings within an approximately 10,000 hectare area near Tripoli's southern entrance. The whole complex is currently deserted. There have been occasional proposals to revive and repurpose the site, but these have not succeeded, partly for political reasons, but mainly because completing the site would alter its current semi-ruined state, which has attracted many architectural tourists.