45 Park Place Located in
Tribeca, New York City, the tower’s design is characterized by an "inside-out" process which changes the neighborhood's traditional loft into a vertical modern glass structure, and re-uses the full-floor units, including lofted ceilings, and an in-unit elevator. It has full-height glass windows which provide unobstructed, 360-degree views of the city.
CALYPSO CALYPSO is situated entirely in the sea along the coast of Jounieh Bay in
North Lebanon. With only a lateral connection to land, the residential structure is able to withstand continuous wave impacts with heights of up to without incurring breakage. The structure's unique glass envelope is the first ever to be designed as wave-proof. The design received a World Architecture Design Award in 2019.
Unilux Hailed as a “marvel of both contemporary design and ingenious problem solving", the Beirut-based showroom project was commissioned by Unilux Group. Given the challenge of working with a space that was mostly underground. Abboud used the showroom's basement space to showcase lighting fixtures housed in individual niche-like wall displays from floor to ceiling. On the upper floor, Abboud used digital modeling software and a
parametric design script to create an array of 1000 cubes, positioning them to create the impression of a rippling dynamic floor, walls and ceiling. The continuous, non-linear surfaces allow the ground floor space to appear larger than its originally shallow confines, while the interaction of light on the reflective cubes metaphorically reinforces the showroom's function as a provider of light.
WAVE Due to its location on the corner of Beirut's Ashrafieh Mar Mitr quarter, the WAVE residential site faced a series of challenges due to sun exposure, solar overheating and privacy concerns. To mitigate these problems, Abboud and his team created a type of “second skin” for the structure, which acts as a screening mechanism by utilizing a horizontal louvered system. The structure's interactive parametric design allows the depth of the louvers to be controlled by an interior program based on the level of shading and privacy required. The louver becomes thinner with the need for less privacy or more sunlight, or deeper when more privacy or shading is desired. The effect of these dynamic, parametrically generated mechanisms gives the building exterior the appearance of having organic waves. The design for WAVE, also nicknamed “The W Residences” won Abboud an
Architizer A+ award in 2017.
One at Palm Jumeirah Abboud broke records in the Middle East for his design of the most expensive structure ever to be built in Dubai. ==Other selected projects ==