Egypt
EMR.com (Peter Reina)
- 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...
- 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...
- Update Re Grand Museum In Cairo
Egypt State Information Service "The second phase of establishing the new Grand Museum is nearing completion," Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said during the press conference which he held on Monday 25/8/2008 after his meeting with the international...
- Museum Update
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6763 The Egypt Today website has two short features on their Culture 101 page, above, re the establishment of two new museums in Egypt. New museum in Hurghada "Hurghada will soon be home to a the first...
- Sis Statement About The Grand Museum
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o240625b.htmThe Egyptian State Information Service has released a statement about the new museum planned for the Giza Plateau. The enitre item is quoted here: " Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said the Grand Egyptian...
Egypt
Update on Grand Egyptian Museum
EMR.com (Peter Reina)
Six years after design began and one year after it was completed, Egypt’s Ministry of Culture is almost ready to start construction of the $550-million main building of the Grand Egyptian Museum, near Cairo.
Having secured a $390-million soft loan from Japan, the ministry last month appointed a team of Hill International Inc., Marlton, N.J., and EHAF Consulting Engineer, Cairo, to manage construction of the main building’s core, shell and fit out.
“We are hoping to get to the tender stage in the next 90-120 days,” and expect international contractors to bid, says Raouf S. Ghali, president of Hill’s Project Management Group (International). “The ministry is looking for the highest caliber,” he adds.
The project’s lengthy gestation is nothing compared to the antiquity of the ancient artifacts to be housed in the 500-hectare complex with 24-meter-high ceilings, partially buried in desert sand at the great pyramids of Giza. Already, the 12.5-m-tall statue of Rameses the Great, who ruled over 3,000 years ago, has been moved from Cairo for temporary storage near the museum site.
To prevent the sprawling complex from competing with the pyramids, two kilometer away, the 100,000-sq-m main building has been sited at the toe of an escarpment rising from the River Nile delta.
- 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...
- 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...
- Update Re Grand Museum In Cairo
Egypt State Information Service "The second phase of establishing the new Grand Museum is nearing completion," Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said during the press conference which he held on Monday 25/8/2008 after his meeting with the international...
- Museum Update
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6763 The Egypt Today website has two short features on their Culture 101 page, above, re the establishment of two new museums in Egypt. New museum in Hurghada "Hurghada will soon be home to a the first...
- Sis Statement About The Grand Museum
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o240625b.htmThe Egyptian State Information Service has released a statement about the new museum planned for the Giza Plateau. The enitre item is quoted here: " Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said the Grand Egyptian...