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Portuguese designer proposes plan to transform Beirut port into memorial to victims of explosion

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Beirut, Feb 4 (EFE), (Camera: Noemí Jabois).- Six months after the Beirut Port explosion, the Lebanese authorities began to figure out plans for the future of ground zero of the blast that left over 200 dead and 6,500 injured.The rebuilding of the port, where there is still a large hole caused by August 4 explosion and only one building erected, will cost between $425 and $520 million, according to the World Bank estimations.One of the first reconstruction ideas emerged nearly a month after the explosion by Portuguese designer Tomás Reis, who published a series of “concept images” for a future memorial at ground zero.SOUNDBITES OF PORTUGUESE DESIGNER TOMÁS REIS.

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