Wrecking ball awaits Downtown Beirut landmark
Oddly shaped theater has benefited from several reprieves, but now its luck seems to be running out
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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It's an icon, it's an eyesore - whatever it is, it's doomed again. The bulbous, pock-marked structure flanking Martyrs Square in Downtown Beirut - an old movie theater known variously as the dome, the egg, the bubble, the blob, saboune (meaning soap) or by its official name, the Beirut City Center Building.
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