Phenicia InterContinental Hotel
| Phenicia InterContinental Hotel | |
|---|---|
| Hotel chain | InterContinental |
| city | Beirut , Lebanon |
| address | Minet el-Hosn |
| Website | phoeniciabeirut.com |
| Hotel information | |
| opening | 1961 |
| building | 3 |
| Classification | 5 Stars |
| Employee | ~ 1200 |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 479 |
| Restaurants | 3 |
| Bars | 2 |
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Coordinates: 33 ° 54 ′ 2 " N , 35 ° 29 ′ 40" E
The Phenicia InterContinental Hotel is a 5 star hotel of the InterContinental Hotels Group in Beirut , Lebanon . It is located on the Mediterranean coast on Rue Fakhreddine on the Corniche Beirut , the city's promenade. It was built in the Minet el-Hosn district , on the western edge of the city center; the Beirut airport is about eight kilometers from the hotel.
construction
Today, after several renovations, the hotel consists of three individual buildings with a pool in the middle. It has three restaurants, two bars, 446 rooms and 33 suites. The hotel has about 1200 employees. The high ceilings, the curved stairs and the conspicuous columns are particularly striking inside the building. One of the three buildings is used exclusively for offices and apartments .
history
The Phenicia Hotel was built by Lebanese businessman Najib Salha ; the American architect Edward Durell Stone designed it together with Ferdinand Dagher and Rodolphe Elias . It was opened in December 1961 and initially had 600 rooms and suites. There were also some shops, restaurants and a pool with a bar. In the mid-1970s, the hotel was expanded to include a 22-story high-rise. This building was designed by the Lebanese architect Joseph Philippe Karam . At the time, it was one of the most famous hotels in the city.
During the Lebanese Civil War , the hotel was badly affected by fighting in 1975 and 1976, also known as the Battle of the Hotels . After the fighting between the Lebanese front , the Lebanese National Movement , the armed forces of Lebanon and the PLO that found their start in the district Corniche, only a burnt-out ruins remained of the Hotel Phenicia. After about 20 years of deterioration, the hotel was rebuilt by Mazen and Marwan Salha in the late 1990s, and another new building was added. The Holiday Inn Hotel Beirut , which is located directly behind the Phenicia, has not yet been rebuilt in 2014, and the traces of the fighting can still be clearly seen here.
The Hotel Phenicia was finally reopened in March 2000 after extensive restorations and renovations. When bombing on 14 February 2005 on the convoy of former prime minister and entrepreneur Rafik al-Hariri , the hotel was again badly damaged. The renovation took about three months. In 2011 the hotel for about 50 million was US $ modernized and reopened its 50th anniversary.
Art exhibition
As part of the reopening on his 50th birthday, a contemporary art collection including works by Howard Hodgkin , Sam Francis , Jan Dibbets , Andy Goldsworthy , Paul Morrison and a Mud Circle , a stone and boulder sculpture by Richard Long , was shown at the hotel .
The hotel in the film
In many films about Beirut, the hotel appears as a landmark of the city. In the meantime, however, the Marina Towers Beirut and the Platinum Tower , which are located directly on St. George's Bay ( Zaitunay Bay ), have optically replaced the Phenicia as a landmark.
In the 1965 movie In Beirut The Nights Are Long with Mickey Rooney , both the hotel and the pool and bar showed up.
In the 1966 film Agent 505 - Beirut Death Trap , the main actor was a guest at the hotel when he visited Beirut.
In the 1981 film The Fake by Volker Schlöndorff , the hotel has already been destroyed by the war. In the storyline, however, the guests arrive here to stay at the hotel. The exterior shots were shot at the Phenicia Hotel, while the interior shots were shot at the Casino du Liban , 22 kilometers north of Beirut.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Phenicia Hotel Beirut at Lebanon-Hotels.com ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b c Bitter suite: the story of Beirut's hotels, The Phenicia, Le Gray and the Holiday Inn
- ↑ PHOENICIA INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL at beirut-hotel.com
- ↑ www.phoenicia-ic.com History of the InterContinental Phenicia
- ^ Joseph Philippe Karam Pioneer of Modern Architecture in Lebanon
- ↑ Inherent glamor and classic style at Beirut's Phenicia Hotel
- ↑ Agent 505 - Beirut Death Trap
