LEBANESE ELECTRICITY

Gemmayze's most useful and well-known landmark. Located where Gouraud Street ends and Armenian Street begins, this massive building was designed by architect Pierre Neema. It was intended to represent a leap into the modernity of independent Lebanon and was therefore inspired by the style of Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who designed the city of Brasilia. Now falling into ruins, it is a good symbol of the country's recurring energy supply problems.