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22 May 2013
Ayssar Arida at Polypod
Join us to discover Ayssar Arida's award-winning work ranging from interface design to large-scale city planning and strategy on Wednesday 22 May.
09 May 2013
Hiring Senior Architect
Polypod is hiring a Senior Architect with at least 3 years of experience.
If you are interested, please send your CV and portfolio to connect@polypod.com.lb with subject Senior Architect.
03 May 2013
VP in Daily Star
03 May 2013
Polypod wins 4th Graphis Gold
18 Apr 2013
Visualizing Palestine at Polypod
Polypod Creative Series presents Visualizing Palestine, on Thursday 18 April 2013 at 19:00. VP team will share the process of transforming raw data into visual stories.
03 Apr 2013
Polypod at BCC party
Polypod had a blast at the BCC CUP 1.0 bash! Here's the full gallery at Beiruting.com
03 Apr 2013
Beirut Creative Cluster launch party
At the Beirut Creative Cluster launch party, Hani, BCC president, announces the launch of the design and innovation think tank, that would idenitfy initiatives and solutions to improve Lebanon's creative economic output.
02 Apr 2013
Faces of the Economy
In a recent article at Marcopolis, Hani explains how 'We work hard at building an empowered base of staff members, and we encourage open dialog and literal transparency...People at Polypod are expected to be themselves, and not bring in a work persona.'
19 Mar 2013
VP posters in UK Parliament
Visualizing Palestine posters designed by Polypod are displayed by Labour Palestine in the UK Parliament as part of a campaign to raise awareness about social injustice in Palestine.
13 Mar 2013
Polypod in Entrepreneur Levant
Article on Beirut Creative Cluster featuring Hani and Polypod.
04 Mar 2013
Collect to Connect Update
02 Mar 2013
Hani at Beirut Service Jam
Hani will be leading a workshop on networking at the Beirut Service Jam organized by Mirada Madrid at Beirut Digital District on Saturday 2 March.
20 Feb 2013
Massaya at Polypod
Ramzi Ghosn of Massaya, shares the story of the successful wine and arak brand, an award-winning Lebanese product of global stature.
04 Feb 2013
Gaza Timeline in Bidayat
Bidayat magazine's 3rd issue features Visualizing Palestine's Gaza Timeline, which Polypod designed with Ahmad Barclay.
24 Jan 2013
Polypod Creative Series on beirut.com
Beirut.com covers the Polypod Creative Series event with Warren Singh-Bartlett and Sinan Hallak on 23 January
23 Jan 2013
Warren-Singh Bartlett with Sinan Hallak at Polypod
The Polypod Creative Series presents Warren-Singh Bartlett who will share stories from his whimsical city guide Bet You Didn't Know This About Beirut with Sinan Hallak illustrator of the book, on Wed 23 Jan at 19:00.
15 Jan 2013
Raneem and Massa join Polypod
Polypod is happy to welcome Raneem el Khachen and Massa Ammouri as part of our growing architectural team.
03 Jan 2013
Hani's TEDxBeirut talk
Hani's talk at TEDxBeirut has garnered over 1,000 views in less than 1 week.
Watch it now on YouTube here.
05 Dec 2012
.PSLAB at Polypod
The Polypod Creative Series presents .PSLAB, manufacturers of lighting from a new perspective, who will take us to a tour from their Lebanese local office to Europe.
24 Nov 2012
VP in Huffington Post
Visualizing Palestine's latest infographic on war victims, which Polypod helped design, is featured in the Huffington Post.
21 Nov 2012
Samandal at Polypod
The Polypod Creative Series presents Samandal, the trilingual comics magazine, on Wed 21 Nov at 19:00.
19 Nov 2012
The One - Ain Saadeh featured in Archileb
The One - Ain Saadeh project featured in Archileb as the winner of the International Arabian Property Award in the Highly Commended Architecture Lebanon Category.
13 Nov 2012
Polypod awarded second place
Polypod was short-listed and awarded second place for the competition Country Club in Kfardebian, a development by FFA Real Estate.
05 Nov 2012
Hani Asfour at TEDxBeirut
Hani Asfour will be speaking at TEDxBeirut about designing learning spaces in a connected world. Register at TEDxBeirut to attend this and other inspiring stories.
19 Oct 2012
Ain Saadeh wins Arabian Property Award 2012
Polypod's Ain Saadeh - The One is awarded Highly Commended Architecture Multiple Residence Lebanon by the Arabian Property Awards 2012.
16 Oct 2012
Polypod in TimeOut Beirut
TimeOut Beirut interviews Hani and Rana in the current issue, where they talk about the Creative Series.
12 Oct 2012
Polypod team building outlet
Polypod goes on a team building outing with Lebanese Adventure. Fun times spent and we're looking forward for another adventurous day.
04 Oct 2012
Nadim Karam at Polypod
On 4 October Polypod launches Season 3 of the Polypod Creative Series hosting Nadim Karam, founder of Atelier Hapsitus.
10 Sep 2012
Polypod wins Arabian Property Award
Polypod wins the 2012-2013 Arabian Properties Award for Architecture Multiple Residence for the Ain Saadeh project. The regional award is given out by the well-established London-based International Property Awards in association with Yamaha.
07 Sep 2012
Polypod supports Balsam
In continuous support of Balsam, the Lebanese Center for Palliative Care, Polypod designs the flyer and poster for the fundraising event to be held in SkyBar on 11 September.
31 Aug 2012
Visualizing Palestine on Aljazeera
Aljazeera publishes 'A Policy of Displacement', the latest infographic co-designed by Polypod for Visualizing Palestine.
30 Aug 2012
AUB launches non-smoking campaign
AUB's Neighborhood Initiative and Tobacco Control Research Group launched a campaign in support of Law 174 banning smoking indoors in public places. Polypod helped AUB design the campaign posters.
23 Aug 2012
Hani Asfour elected President of BCC
Hani Asfour was elected as the first president of the Beirut Creative Cluster, a brainchild of Berytech to put together a conglomeration of 25 creative companies in Lebanon.
14 Aug 2012
Creative Series 2013
We will launch the 2013 Creative Series in September. Stay tuned for more details and the speaker list.
16 Jul 2012
New VP maps online
Polypod's design for the 'Across the Wall' and 'Greater Israel Bus Connections' infographic pair, based on Ahmad Barclay's original mapping for Visualizing Palestine goes online.
11 Jul 2012
Rania Matar at Polypod
Polypod Creative Series Presents Rania Matar, an award-winning photographer based in Boston, studied at Cornell and worked as an architect before focusing on her art.
03 Jul 2012
Rana Samara Jubayli at FFA Competition Jury
Polypod co-founder Rana Samara Jubayli on competition jury panel to review concept architectural projects submitted for the Amchit Project by FFA Real Estate.
02 Jul 2012
Polypod at World Architecture Jury
Hani Asfour, an Honorary Member of the World Architecture Community, votes to help select the winners of the 11th Cycle Shortlist.
29 Jun 2012
Zaarour Competition Announces Winner
Polypod completed the management of the Zaarour Club Competition by announcing the winner, Najjar+Najjar.
29 Jun 2012
Mohamad Haidar wins Creativity Award at LAU
Mohamad Haidar, an intern web developer at Polypod, has received the Creativity Award from LAU for the 2012 Capstone project. Mohamad developed a 3D simulation of the LAU library that allows users to experience it as a game.
28 Jun 2012
Polypod Open House in The Daily Star
Polypod opened the studio to the public to participate in a typical design workshop and hosted Dar Onboz as part of the Creative Series. Polypod's participation is covered in the Daily Star. Read the article.
27 Jun 2012
Dar Onboz at Polypod
Come to the ongoing Creative Series to listen and see the work of pluridisciplinary publishing house Dar Onboz.
25 Jun 2012
Polypod Open House at Beirut Design Week
Don't forget to visit Polypod in the Beirut Design Week, be there for the Open House on Wednesday June 27 from 4 to 7pm.
07 Jun 2012
In further collaboration with our community
Polypod is designing the non-smoking campaign for AUB. Look out for it in your favourite restaurants in Hamra.
07 Jun 2012
Polypod's design services to brand the Green Campaign
A project by the Municipality of Beirut bringing together the Beirutis to adopt residual green areas, with the contribution of renowned lebanese landscape designers.
23 May 2012
Zeina Daccache at Polypod's Creative Series
Join us as we screen '12 Angry Lebanese' followed by a discussion with Zeina Daccache, as she shares the power of the creative force behind Catharsis and her recent projects on Wednesday May 23 2012 at 19:00.
RSVP at connect@polypod.com.lb
19 May 2012
WTD publishes playground
WTD magazine, a new journal on architectural discourse and design, publishes a short piece on Polypod’s IC Ain Aar Preschool Playground in the current volume. The article describes the design process and maps it to the perceptual development of the preschoolers.
07 May 2012
Update: Nader Tehrani joins Vincent James
Polypod is delighted to announce that Nader Tehrani will join Vincent James in conversation at the Polypod Creative Series tonight Monday 7 May, at 7pm.
Reserve your seat now at connect@Polypod.com.lb.
Vincent James is the principal of Minnesota-based architecture firm VJAA, winner of four National AIA Honor Awards and the 2012 AIA Firm Award. Vincent will share experiences from his innovative practice. His work is represented locally in the AUB Charles Hostler Center, which received several awards including a 2009 AIA COTE Top Ten Award for excellence in environmentally responsible design.
Nader Tehrani is a principal and founder of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to design innovation. He also is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Nader Tehrani’s work received many awards, including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, the United States Artists Architecture and Design Award, and thirteen Progressive Architecture Awards.
Special thanks to the Zaarour Club for supporting this event.
Looking forward to see you tonight.
30 Apr 2012
Vincent James at Polypod
The Polypod Creative Series is hosting AIA 2012 Firm of the Year VJAA principal Vincent James on Monday 7 May at 7pm. James is best known in Lebanon for AUB’s Hostler Center.
