Pierre el-Khoury

Pierre el-Khoury (1930–2005), known as "Sheikh Pierre", was a prolific architect from Lebanon.

He studied at École des Beaux-Arts, returned to Lebanon and designed more than 200 projects including Burj Al Ghazal Tower and Moritra residential building[1][2] He helped restore several houses in Baadarâne, Aley, and Aramoun and helped renovate a palace in Beit ed-Dine into a hotel with Amin Bizri in 1965.

[2] He worked with many younger architects including Kamal Homsi, Jacques Abou Khaled, Semaan Khoury, Pierre Bassil, Joseph Faysal, Antoine Gemayel, Joe Geitani, and Tarek Zeidan.

[2] He died of bone cancer in Beirut.

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