"黎巴嫩建筑师Nabil Gholam及其同事的作品以全球建筑作品为背景，很难将其归为某个类别。一方面，它可以被认为是一家有能力，现代的，全球性公司，在这方面，**的SOM建筑设计事务所仍然是典范。另一方面，Nabil Gholam 建筑事务所（NGA）能够创造各种规模的，具有当地特色的，有理有据的作品，从一次性的豪华别墅到偶尔大型的城市规模的项目，就像他们进入Jabal Omar 国际设计比赛（在本世纪初为沙特阿拉伯的麦加举办的一场比赛

）的作品一样。

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"Set against the backdrop of global architectural production, the work of the Lebanese architect Nabil Gholam and his associates defies easy classification. On the one hand it can be regarded as a competent, modern, global practice for which the legendary SOM is still a model. On the other, NGA are capable of creating works that possess a uniquely grounded, local character at a variety of scales, from one-off luxury villas to the occasional monumental project at an urban scale, as in their entry for the Jabal Omar International Design Competition, planned for Mecca in Saudi Arabia at the turn of the millennium.

It is paradoxical that this prosperous, sophisticated practice should be located in what is still, despite its prosperity, the unstable and often violent environment of Beirut.

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