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Building collapses are common in Cairo, home to some 20 million people, and the shortage of affordable housing is so acute that 1.5 to 2 million are believed to live in tombs in an area known as ...
Modern self-built homes, and older rural houses near Ard El Liwa, Giza, with the Giza Pyramids in the background. Even though mathematically more housing than needed is produced in Egypt resulting in millions of vacant homes, [1] large portions of its residents live in inadequate housing that may lack secure tenure, safe drinking water and wastewater treatment, are crowded or are prone to ...
The New Administrative Capital (NAC) [1] [2] (Arabic: العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة, romanized: al-ʿĀṣima al-ʾIdārīya al-Gadīda) is the placeholder name for a new urban community in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite of Cairo City. It is planned to be Egypt's new capital and has been under construction since 2015. [3]
New Heliopolis (Arabic: هليوبوليس الجديدة) is a large 5400 acre real estate development located in the satellite city of Shorouk, Cairo Governorate, Egypt.
Heliopolis style is an early 20th-century architectural style developed in the new suburb of Heliopolis in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company, responsible for planning and developing the new suburb, created the new style to implement an exclusive distinctiveness to the design of its buildings.
ipgegypt.com /en /projects /300-central-iconic-tower-new-capital 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.
The Fifth Settlement (Arabic: التجمع الخامس, literally means "the Fifth Gathering"; commonly shortened to: التجمع et-Tagammoʿ pronounced [et.tæˈɡæm.moʕ]) forms a qism (also known as Al-Qahira al-Gadida Awwal, New Cairo 1 police ward) in the New Cairo satellite city, in the Eastern Area of Cairo Governorate, Egypt.
The residential architecture in Historic Cairo covers the area that was built during the Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, French occupation and even Mohamed Ali periods. [1] Historic Cairo covers an area of around 523.66 ha on the eastern bank of the Nile river and is surrounded by the modern quarters of Greater Cairo .