Mardiros Altounian (1889–1958) was an Armenian-Lebanese architect. He designed the Lebanese Parliament Building in

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(1931), the Abed clock tower (1934), Azounieh sanitorum in

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, and Melkonian Benefactors' Mausoleum in

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(with French-Armenian sculptor Leon Mouradoff).Nejmeh Square
with aerial photo of Abed clock tower Altounian was French-Armenian. The mausoleum replaced an older wooden trellis monument and was completed in 1956. Altounian graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in

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, France, in 1918.THE LEGACY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN BEIRUT, 1950-1975
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Video of a tribute to Altounian and unveiling of a sculpture of him

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