Gefinor Center was designed by Victor Gruen and his award-winning firm. Built in the International Style, it is the enduring image of an architecture that is elegant, well wrought and universal, an urban ideal that is frequently proposed but seldom achieved. In a city where open space has become a rarity, Gefinor Center Plaza with its play of water, light and greenery offers an elegant reprieve. "Amidst a surge of new construction," says the International Herald Tribune, "it stands as a model of quality that more and more Lebanese would like to see followed."