Architecture: Honorable Mention 2022 (amateur)
Unfinished project by Oscar Niemeyer in Lebanon. by Dimitar Karanikolov (Bulgaria)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Tripoli International Fair (Rashid Karameh International Exhibition Center) in Lebanon, one finds one of the five largest exhibition centers in the world . The 15 structures, designed by legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1963, remain unfinished due to the project's abandonment during the country's civil war in 1975.
AUTHOR
Dimitar is an architect with a passion for travel and aerial photography.
After graduation he worked at the experimental practice ONL-Rotterdam.
Than moved to UK and worked for couple of years at Foster+Partners.
In 2007 he founded MESHROOM - architectural visualisation / CG art studio based in London and Sofia. (www.meshroom.com)
In recent years he’s been traveling on specialized photo expeditions worldwide, trying to capture authentic environments and portraits and unusual perspectives with his drone.
His work has been featured in National Geographic, Lonely Planet, Fubiz, Designboom and PetaPixel
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