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- Culture Ministry Solicits Bids For Grand Egypt Museum's Final Stage
Al Masry Al Youm The Ministry of Culture solicited bids on Thursday from four specialized companies that had won an international competition for carrying out the third and final stage of construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum project. The third stage...
- Companies Compete To Establish Grand Egyptian Museum
Egypt State Information Service As many as 40 international companies have applied to an international competition to establish the Grand Egyptian Museum, Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said on July 19th 2010. The applicants were cut down to 10 by an...
- Museum: Grand Egyptian Museum
Yahoo! News Hill International (NYSE:HIL - News), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that a joint venture between Hill and EHAF Consulting Engineers has received a contract from the Ministry of Culture's Supreme Council...
- Museums: Grand Egyptian Museum Progress Report
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With photos of various personnel and dignitaries. Last Thursday I visited the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) to view the progress of the construction of this important new museum for Egyptian antiquities. The amazing thing about...
- The Monumental Museum Of Egypt Is Taking Shape
World Architecture News The Grand Museum of Egypt’s design team, consisting of international multi disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, architects Hparc and Arup, has completed the submission of 5000 drawings to form the construction documentation...
Egypt
Hawass visits Grand Museum
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I went to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) at Giza on Tuesday to review the progress being made there. It was a very successful trip. I have always dreamed of this museum being Egypt’s answer to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the best and biggest museum in the world. I saw that its staff are working hard to realize this dream and that it is a successful example of international cooperation.
In 2002 we held an international architecture competition with UNESCO and the International Union of Architects to choose the winning design for the GEM. This new museum was planned from the start to be the biggest museum of Egyptology in the world. Architects from 83 different countries entered the competition with 1557 designs. 20 were short-listed by the committee, but Heneghan Peng Architects from Ireland were unanimously chosen as the winner in July 2003. Joining them is an international team of 300 engineers representing Egypt, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Austria and Canada.
Building work started in May 2005, concentrating first on a new conservation center, conservation energy center, fire station and an artifact tunnel to allow safe transfer of objects from the conservation center and the main body of the museum.
- Culture Ministry Solicits Bids For Grand Egypt Museum's Final Stage
Al Masry Al Youm The Ministry of Culture solicited bids on Thursday from four specialized companies that had won an international competition for carrying out the third and final stage of construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum project. The third stage...
- Companies Compete To Establish Grand Egyptian Museum
Egypt State Information Service As many as 40 international companies have applied to an international competition to establish the Grand Egyptian Museum, Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said on July 19th 2010. The applicants were cut down to 10 by an...
- Museum: Grand Egyptian Museum
Yahoo! News Hill International (NYSE:HIL - News), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that a joint venture between Hill and EHAF Consulting Engineers has received a contract from the Ministry of Culture's Supreme Council...
- Museums: Grand Egyptian Museum Progress Report
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With photos of various personnel and dignitaries. Last Thursday I visited the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) to view the progress of the construction of this important new museum for Egyptian antiquities. The amazing thing about...
- The Monumental Museum Of Egypt Is Taking Shape
World Architecture News The Grand Museum of Egypt’s design team, consisting of international multi disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, architects Hparc and Arup, has completed the submission of 5000 drawings to form the construction documentation...