Sainte Thérèse Cathedral
Shayleh · Design & build
We draw buildings, build them with our own teams, develop on our own account, and structure the transactions that make them possible. Four capabilities most firms hold one of.
Most firms are an architect, or a contractor, or a developer. We have been all four since 1982.
Matar + Partners is an architecture-led design, construction and development practice founded in Beirut in 1982, now led by its second generation.
Design practices draw and hand over. Contractors build to someone else's drawings. Developers originate and outsource the rest. Because we hold all four links, cost, quality and programme are things we control rather than negotiate on a client's behalf.
The rarest link is the fourth. Our principal spent a decade in institutional real estate finance before returning to run the practice, so the underwriting is not commissioned. It is done at the same table as the design.
The international development and investment platform. Portugal, Greece and Cyprus.
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Serviced-residence operations, on our buildings and on third-party mandates.
Each holds its own balance sheet. A group of separately owned companies under common ownership, and nothing above them.
