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Major works to visit include the Tulkarm Courthouse designed by AAU Anastas, located on a triangular plot at the entrance of the city. Finely-detailed stonework characterises both buildings as well as the courtyard and plaza areas. The client was United Nations Office for Project Services.
Also worth a look are the Revitalisation of Birzeit Historic Centre by Riwaq, and the campus of Birzeit University, near Ramallah on the West Bank, where Heneghan Peng architects based in Dublin, Ireland won the Architecture Contest.
Tulkarm Courthouse Palestine design by AAU Anastas on the West Bank – stone-faced concrete administrative building with deep-set windows to shield direct sunlight ; the courthouse uses steel screens to filter sunshine
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This five-year project, part of a rehabilitation master plan initiated by Riwaq, has transformed the decaying town of Birzeit, created employment through conservation and revived vanishing traditional crafts in the process.
The idea and realization of People’s Museum could be situated anywhere in the world, but its location in occupied Palestine gives it a special significance.