Beirut

Inter-Continental negotiated a deal to build the Inter-Continental Phoenicia in Beirut, Lebanon. They brought in leading American architect Eduard Durell Stone to complete the design with Joseph Salerno, an architect who had worked on Inter-Continental’s Curacao hotel in Brazil. The interiors were contracted to the New York architectural firm of William M. Ballard, where Neal Prince had worked since 1957. Because of his experience working on hotels and a modest remodel project he did for an Inter-Continental hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Prince was sent by Ballard to Beirut to work on the interiors and to represent Stone in matters of interior layouts and finishes.