Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly
- Baron Empain's Legendary Palace Is To Be Converted
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) Baron Empain's legendary palace is to be converted into an international cultural centre and museum after restoration, Nevine El-Aref reports When Edouard Empain arrived to Egypt in 1904 to construct a railway line...
- New Book: Heliopolis
Al Masry Al Youm (Louise Sarant) The Fond Mercator, a renowned Belgium publishing house specializing in art books, has recently published “Heliopolis,” a 240-page richly illustrated coffee table book that studies the different historic stages of Cairo’s...
- India To Help Egypt Conserve The Baron's Palace
The Hindu NEW DELHI: After Katsaraj and Ta Prohm Temple Complexes in Pakistan and Cambodia, India will now help Egypt in conserving and maintaining one of its key tourist spot — Baron Palace — in Cairo, which looks like a typical Hindu temple. The...
- Restoration Of The Baron Palace, Heliopolis
Egyptian Gazette NB. The story will expire on the above site shortly (it is currently located on the "Tourism" page). In 2005, to mark the centenary of Heliopolis, Suzanne Mubarak ordered the restoration of the derelict Baron Eduard Empain Palace, formerly...
- Travel: Visiting Cairo
http://tinyurl.com/f7utl (mirror.co.uk)A travel item describing in brief what Cairo is like, what to see in the city, where to eat, what sort of night life is available, where to shop, and (if you are based in the UK) how to get there. There are no surprises...
Egypt
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 not so painful, perhaps, when a villa is pulled down in the Cairo district of Mohandessin and replaced by a high-rise. But when the same thing happens in Heliopolis, it is more distressing. Mohandessin is a new suburb, one that took shape in the 1970s with the resurgence of the luxury housing market. But Heliopolis is an older neighbourhood and an architectural treasure, and it is being ravaged.
The demolition of old villas built in the distinctive style of the beginning of the last century when Baron Edouard Empain created the suburb is nothing short of criminal, according to Mohamed Abdel-Baqi Ibrahim, a prominent architect who has recently carried out research on Heliopolis.
The architectural model on which Heliopolis was based offers a damning contrast to the random development to which we have since grown accustomed, Ibrahim says, pointing out that the suburb was built at the beginning of the 20th century to answer to the rising demand for housing in Cairo.
- Baron Empain's Legendary Palace Is To Be Converted
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) Baron Empain's legendary palace is to be converted into an international cultural centre and museum after restoration, Nevine El-Aref reports When Edouard Empain arrived to Egypt in 1904 to construct a railway line...
- New Book: Heliopolis
Al Masry Al Youm (Louise Sarant) The Fond Mercator, a renowned Belgium publishing house specializing in art books, has recently published “Heliopolis,” a 240-page richly illustrated coffee table book that studies the different historic stages of Cairo’s...
- India To Help Egypt Conserve The Baron's Palace
The Hindu NEW DELHI: After Katsaraj and Ta Prohm Temple Complexes in Pakistan and Cambodia, India will now help Egypt in conserving and maintaining one of its key tourist spot — Baron Palace — in Cairo, which looks like a typical Hindu temple. The...
- Restoration Of The Baron Palace, Heliopolis
Egyptian Gazette NB. The story will expire on the above site shortly (it is currently located on the "Tourism" page). In 2005, to mark the centenary of Heliopolis, Suzanne Mubarak ordered the restoration of the derelict Baron Eduard Empain Palace, formerly...
- Travel: Visiting Cairo
http://tinyurl.com/f7utl (mirror.co.uk)A travel item describing in brief what Cairo is like, what to see in the city, where to eat, what sort of night life is available, where to shop, and (if you are based in the UK) how to get there. There are no surprises...