Egypt
The Financial Times
- From City Of The (not So) Dead To Green Lung
CairObserver The necropolis east of historic Cairo and under Muqattam hills is about ten times bigger than Al Azhar Park just across Salah Salem highway. It has received some attention from architectural historians due to the exquisite funerary architecture....
- Developing Downtown Cairo For Tourism
BBC News Video The Downtown area of Cairo is an odd mixture of Colonial era architecture and modern bustle, buildings and rather a lot of architectural decay. This video looks at some of the problems and the proposed solutions. A bit off topic, but it's...
- Architect Treads Softly In Shadows Of History
Rocky Mountain News For an architect, it's tough enough designing a huge facility covering 15 acres and housing a cavernous underground garage, a posh hotel and hundreds of thousands of square feet of office and retail space. But to map out a $730...
- New Book: Cairo Of The Mamluks
Egypt Daily Star News (Michaela Singer) Cairo of the Mamluks by Doris Behrens-Abouseif, American University in Cairo Press The trajectory of Cairo’s history has always resembled a struggle for self-immortalization. Lest their memory became a muffled...
- More Re World Monuments Watch
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070606watch.asp "The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced its 2008 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites today. This year’s list highlights buildings and other heritage sites that...
Egypt
Architour of Cairo
The Financial Times
A very brief look at some of the architectural highlights of Cairo, of which I find the Nile Hilton probably the most unexpected of the buildings that appear on the brief list.
- From City Of The (not So) Dead To Green Lung
CairObserver The necropolis east of historic Cairo and under Muqattam hills is about ten times bigger than Al Azhar Park just across Salah Salem highway. It has received some attention from architectural historians due to the exquisite funerary architecture....
- Developing Downtown Cairo For Tourism
BBC News Video The Downtown area of Cairo is an odd mixture of Colonial era architecture and modern bustle, buildings and rather a lot of architectural decay. This video looks at some of the problems and the proposed solutions. A bit off topic, but it's...
- Architect Treads Softly In Shadows Of History
Rocky Mountain News For an architect, it's tough enough designing a huge facility covering 15 acres and housing a cavernous underground garage, a posh hotel and hundreds of thousands of square feet of office and retail space. But to map out a $730...
- New Book: Cairo Of The Mamluks
Egypt Daily Star News (Michaela Singer) Cairo of the Mamluks by Doris Behrens-Abouseif, American University in Cairo Press The trajectory of Cairo’s history has always resembled a struggle for self-immortalization. Lest their memory became a muffled...
- More Re World Monuments Watch
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070606watch.asp "The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced its 2008 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites today. This year’s list highlights buildings and other heritage sites that...