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The Cairo apartment building, located at 1615 Q Street NW in Washington, D.C., is a landmark in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and the District of Columbia's tallest ...
Washington, D.C.'s history of high-rises began with the completion in 1894 of The Cairo, an apartment building, which is considered to be the city's first high-rise. [3] [4] The building rises 164 feet (50 m) and 14 floors. [3]
Thomas Franklin Schneider (born 1859 in Washington, D.C. — d. 1938) was an American architect who designed about 2,000 houses in the capital city area.. Among his important buildings are the Cairo Apartment Building, The Forest Inn, [1] the Rochambeau, the Stoneleigh Court, the Ethelhurst, and his own private home, the Schneider House.
CAIRO (AP) — A five-story apartment building collapsed Monday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, leaving at least 12 people dead, authorities said, as rescuers continued to search through the rubble.
Cairo Flats, also colloquially known as Cairo Bachelor Flats or Cairo, is a heritage-listed apartment building in the Melbourne inner city suburb of Fitzroy. [1] [2] Cairo Flats derives its name from the Egyptian capital city. While several theories have been proposed regarding the reason for this name, no official documentation exists to ...
Like the novel ostensibly set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War, the film is a scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the coup d'état of 1952. . The setting is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or ...
The Wikala of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (or Wikalat al-Ghuri, among other variations) is a caravanserai in medieval Cairo, Egypt. It was built in 1504–1505 and is considered today one of the most impressive and best-preserved examples of this type of building in Cairo.
The owners then resorted to advertising campaigns in Egyptian and foreign newspapers. With seventy meters, the Immobilia building stood as the tallest building in Cairo at that time, [4] [5] and the advertisements for the building apartments were boasting about its views of the Nile, the pyramids, and the cupola of the church of Saint George. [1]