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Old Posted May 26, 2009, 9:11 AM
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Egypt....

Are their any skyscrapers in this country? It seems the most likely place(besides Johannesburg)since its probably the most civilized country in Africa
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Old Posted May 27, 2009, 1:49 PM
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Errm yes Egypt does have a few buildings here and there , this is Cairo







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http://www.photos4travel.com/Egypt/C...owers_2007.jpg
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Old Posted Jun 18, 2009, 1:25 PM
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Zaha Hadid Architects Win Cairo Expo City Competition

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After presenting the design to Egyptian Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Zaha Hadid Architects was announced as architects of the new Cairo Expo City. Zaha Hadid Architects will be designing Cairo Expo City together with global multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold.

The winning design for Cairo Expo City delivers a unique facility for Cairo - a 450,000 square meter, state of the art city for exhibitions and conferences, located between the center of Cairo and the city’s airport. The project comprises a major international exhibition and conference center with business hotel. A further office tower and a shopping center are also proposed.

“This is a truly national project for Egypt.” said Sherif Salem, CEO of the GOIEF (General Organization of International Exhibitions and Fairs). “The current exhibition halls for Cairo do not meet the standards now required by the international conference and exhibition industry. With this exceptional design by Zaha Hadid Architects, Cairo will be among the world’s top cities for conferences and fairs, able to cater for the widest variety and size of events.”

The undulating fluid forms of the Cairo Expo City design were inspired by the natural topography of the Nile valley explained Zaha Hadid.

“As the exhibition spaces require the greatest degree of flexibility, we wanted to ensure that all the public spaces and formal composition of Cairo Expo City relate to the surrounding Egyptian landscape.” said Hadid. “Along the great rivers of the region, most particularly the Nile, there is a powerful dynamic - a constant flow between the water and the land - which extends to incorporate the neighboring buildings and landscapes. For the Cairo Expo City design, we worked to capture that seamlessness and fluidity in an urban architectural context.”

Carving and sculpting processes have been used to divide the very large exhibition and conference areas required for Cairo Expo City into clusters of individual buildings that have their own formal composition, yet each building relates to the overall design. A main north-south artery is carved through the design, with secondary streams converging at the center to ease crowd traffic during event. The movement of people within these streams informs the building entrances on the site.

Zaha Hadid Architects was shortlisted with Norwegian architecture practice Snøhetta for the second phase of the competition in April. Works will begin in October this year to clear the site.

Built Area: 450,000sqm (exhibition halls, conference center and mixed-use areas)
Height of Towers: 33 and 31 stories
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Old Posted Jul 4, 2009, 7:38 PM
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This woman is so amazing.
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Old Posted Jul 10, 2009, 6:44 PM
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That thing looks awesome!
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Old Posted Nov 7, 2009, 3:37 PM
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wow, cairo looks interesting.
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Old Posted Nov 7, 2009, 7:46 PM
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I have been in Cairo for the past three months, I will have a photo set forthcoming. It depends on what you would consider a skyscraper, if it is a habitable building over 12 stories, then Cairo has hundreds of them. They have only a few "skyscrapers" that stand 40 or more stories. But the city is absolutely gigantic and denser than any area in the United States, except perhaps Manhattan. One of the things I am impressed with everyday is their elevated highway system, which whisks you through the city at heights greater than five stories. For most of the drive, you are able to look out over the sea of skyscrapers, it makes for an interesting morning commute.

If you guys want, I can make a trek out to Cairo Expo City and take some photographs.

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Old Posted Dec 7, 2009, 7:09 AM
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Will this be a green building?
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