Egypt
Construction Week Online (Sarah Blackman)
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- Saving Heliopolis?
Al Ahram Weekly Once the hallmark of architectural elegance and a rare example of a well-planned suburb, the Cairo district of Heliopolis is today under threat from property developers. When will the government act to save it, asks Mohamed Mursi It's...
- Razing The City Of The Dead To Breathe New Life Into Cairo
The National (Matt Bradley) The Egyptian government is studying plans to move the historic Cairo cemetery of Arafa – a neighbourhood in which residents include both the living and the dead – to a location outside the Egyptian capital. The proposed...
- Book Review: Creating Medieval Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News (Jamila Yosri) Paula Sanders’ “Creating Medieval Cairo” is not a quick read for an average tourist, but a book for the more serious observers and students. It is a meticulously researched book with more than 50 pages of notes...
- Museum To Tell The History Of Cairo
http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=12884"Egypt is going to have a new museum. The Arab country is building, in Al-Azhar Park, in Cairo, a museum that will retrieve the history and religion of the capital city of the Arab country. It will be...
- Travel: Tale Of Two Cities
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=4726568 "Modern Cairo is a city of 18-million people. Like many large cities, residents enjoy the conveniences of technology and availability of culture and nightlife, but struggle with dense gridlock...
Egypt
Extending Cairo
Construction Week Online (Sarah Blackman)
Egypt is one of the few countries in the Middle East where history is the main attraction.
It is known for The Nile, Egyptian Scrolls and the Pyramid of Khufu – one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. And, while modern structures are rising from the desert sands throughout the GCC and regeneration takes place, old remnants can still be found in Egypt, which date back thousands of years.
The country’s capital city is no exception either. Dominated by Islamic architecture, Cairo has been aptly nicknamed The City of a Thousand Minarets. What’s more, it has provided a home for residents since the tenth century.
“Cairo is a city that has survived for centuries. Natural resources of survival as water and plantation are available in Cairo, which are not as accessible in the GCC,” Green Builders general manager Mohamed Nasreldin told Construction Week.
But when it comes to the latest construction projects will it be out with the old and in with the new? The current development of New Cairo City suggests that the answer is yes, but this is actually an extension of the capital, being built to meet the demand of residential projects due to the rising population.
And, according to general manager of Cairo Festival City Mohamed El Mikawi, demand for housing is extremely high.
See the above page for the full story.
- Saving Heliopolis?
Al Ahram Weekly Once the hallmark of architectural elegance and a rare example of a well-planned suburb, the Cairo district of Heliopolis is today under threat from property developers. When will the government act to save it, asks Mohamed Mursi It's...
- Razing The City Of The Dead To Breathe New Life Into Cairo
The National (Matt Bradley) The Egyptian government is studying plans to move the historic Cairo cemetery of Arafa – a neighbourhood in which residents include both the living and the dead – to a location outside the Egyptian capital. The proposed...
- Book Review: Creating Medieval Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News (Jamila Yosri) Paula Sanders’ “Creating Medieval Cairo” is not a quick read for an average tourist, but a book for the more serious observers and students. It is a meticulously researched book with more than 50 pages of notes...
- Museum To Tell The History Of Cairo
http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=12884"Egypt is going to have a new museum. The Arab country is building, in Al-Azhar Park, in Cairo, a museum that will retrieve the history and religion of the capital city of the Arab country. It will be...
- Travel: Tale Of Two Cities
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=4726568 "Modern Cairo is a city of 18-million people. Like many large cities, residents enjoy the conveniences of technology and availability of culture and nightlife, but struggle with dense gridlock...