A building 120 metres tall looking onto the centre of Beirut, a sheltered garden opening onto the Mar Mikhaël neighbourhood: the interpenetration of these two elements informs the design for the new Banque Libano-Française headquarters. The BLF project seeks to openly address and embrace all factors and contradictions associated with its setting, the new BLF headquarters will dialogue with its setting while asserting its own autonomous identity. The stairs of Mar Mikhaël become a green public space that unwinds vertically like a ribbon to become the interface between the city and the bank. The design of the volumes makes a number of references to the development of the city, the building envelope is characterized as a staggered stack of blocks. Lamellae are mounted on the façades to protect the glass shell beneath. Their arrangement and variable geometry give the façades a vibrant quality