 Gustafson Porter's chain of public squares ran through the land that was reclaimed from the Normandy dump along the line of the original shoreline, straddling the old and new sections of the city.In designing the Shoreline Gardens, Gustafson Porter incorporated a linear water feature as a contemporary interpretation of the sea wall that once existed along the avenue.By creating a sequence of spaces that traced the historic shoreline of Beirut, the Shoreline Walk once again re-established an east-west connection in this part of the city that Avenue des Français once did.