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The Cairo Tower (Egyptian Arabic: برج القاهرة, Borg El-Qāhira) is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt. At 187 m (614 ft), it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing .
31North Tower [24] [25] Mixed-Use 131m ? 36 2021 Under Construction Nile Developments OIA Towers [26] [27] Mixed-Use 111m 111m 30 2021 Under Construction EDGE Holdings Podia Tower [28] [29] [30] Mixed-Use 110m 110m 29 2021 Approved Menassat Developments Green River Tower Mixed-Use 110m 30 2023 Approved Modon Developments Obsidier Towers Mixed ...
The round tower at the other corner of the two enclosures (between Bab al-Qulla and Bab al-Wastani), known now as Burj al-Wastani ("Middle Tower"), may also date from this time. [18] The first mosque built in the Citadel after the Mamluk period was the Mosque of Sulayman Pasha in the Northern Enclosure, built by the Ottoman governor in 1528 for ...
The Cairo Tower by Naoum Shebib. Naoum Shebib (1915–1985), (or Naoum Chebib,نعوم شبيب) was an Egyptian architect. [1] He is considered one of the 'pioneer Egyptian architects' and a practitioner of Modernist architecture in Egypt.
Structure Pinnacle height Floors Year City Notes Iconic Tower: 393.8 m (1,292 ft) 77 2024 New Administrative Capital: Topped out in August 2021. Completed in 2024.
The Iconic Tower is a mixed-use supertall skyscraper in the New Administrative Capital of Egypt. With a total structural height of almost 400 metres (1,300 ft), it is both the tallest building and the tallest structure in Africa.
Cairo Tower at night. The Cairo Tower is a free-standing tower with a revolving restaurant at the top. It is one of Cairo's landmarks and provides a bird's eye view of the city to the restaurant patrons. It stands in the Zamalek district on Gezira Island in the Nile River, in the city centre.
The Cairo Tower, a 187-meter tall observation tower with a lotus-motif design, was built between 1955 and 1961 [99] and designed by Egyptian architect Naoum Shebib. [100] It was the tallest all-concrete structure in the world upon completion [ 99 ] and it is the most recognizable symbol of post-1952 Egyptian architecture. [ 100 ]