Saida Sérail

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In 1962, Assem Salam won the competition for the Sérail (Administrative complex) in Saida. The various buildings, forming the complex, are organized around courtyards to accommodate several functions. They owe their vocabulary to an idiom developed since 1960 by the British architect Sir Basil Spence in the University of Sussex; here however, Salam replaces the red brick with local yellow sandstone, while keeping the surbased concrete arches. The overall composition is a balance between ordered symmetrical masses and openings, and asymmetrical parts with openings that are not aligned vertically, but follow a repetitive pattern.

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