The forms and materials of Orb, by the Spanish artist SpY, draw on mathematical and symbolic elements of ancient Egyptian culture. Its specular circular pieces reflect a fragmented environment. As SpY explains, “the installation’s rounded shape allud
In the pharaonic city that is going up to decongest chaotic Cairo, different performance spaces are arranged around a public square with the intention of creating a new cultural hub. Wrapped in a skin of translucent onyx, the Grand Theater building i
The bibliotheca Alexandrina is built on the historic harbor of Alexandria, the city founded by Alexander the Great some 2,300 years ago. The project honors the memory of the library of the ancient city, lost to civilization centuries ago. Characteriz
Abierto a un entorno desértico marcado por un rico pasado, un pabellón inspira su forma en las construcciones locales y emplea materiales y técnicas vernáculas.
Built out of structural concrete models, this automotive showroom of 12,000 m2 takes the sphere as inspiration when conceiving and interconnecting the different exhibition halls of the building…
A decade after his series of dense urban landscapes juxtaposed with cemeteries of Hong Kong, the photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro presents images of graveyards in the Egyptian desert. Necropoli of Egypt captures surrealist compositions that reflec
El plan de las autoridades, que ya han retirado la mayoría de estas estructuras, ha recibido críticas por parte de quienes las consideran un símbolo cultural y urbano…
The photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro captures the least-known image of Cairo's architectural legacy by focusing on brutalist structures of the last century. In composing the shots he presents the buildings in a context of abandonment and marginali
Hassan Fathy is Egypt’s most famous architect, barring Imhotep, but is still rather unknown in Spain, where his projects are treated with the paternalism that critics tend to apply on anything exotic, or the exaggerated admiration of those professing
Pharaonic chariots and hundreds of performers featured in a lavish ceremony to mark the opening to the public of the 3,000 year old Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor, Egypt. It's taken decades to excavate ancient walkway, which is nearly 3km long and conne
In his latest optical illusion, the street artist JR has ripped open the top of one of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. The work is part of a trail of large-scale sculptures and installations by ten contemporary artists. The exhibition For
One dam can flood hundreds of ancient sites. The fighters of Islamic State turned sledgehammers and drills on ancient temples after conquering north-western Iraq and north-eastern Syria in 2014. They raided the tombs of Assyrian kings in Nineveh, ble
Ramses II presides the hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum, a colossal structure nearing completion on the Giza Plateau. Designed in 2002 by Heneghan Peng, the construction of what will be the largest archaeological museum in the world devoted to a si
The lavish, multimillion-dollar spectacle saw 22 mummies - 18 kings and four queens - transported from the peach-coloured, neo-classical Egyptian Museum to their new resting place 5km (three miles) away. With tight security arrangements befitting the
Experts say Aten is the largest such city ever found and one of the most important finds since unearthing Tutankhamun’s tomb. Archaeologists have hailed the discovery of what is believed to be the largest ancient city found in Egypt, buried under san
With its population of 82 million, Egypt is not only the oldest country in the world, but the main cultural reference for its neighbors, and until the Arab Spring also an oasis of apparent calm in the powder keg that the Middle East is. Now that the
The work of Manuel Álvarez Diestro (Santander, 1972) proposes meditating on the place that man occupies on earth, and reflects the disastrous consequences of human activity, but also the beauty underlying the transformed landscapes. Diestro has carri
En apenas dos semanas la oficina de Zaha Hadid y Patrick Schumacher ha presentado dos grandes proyectos para El Cairo: un conjunto de oficinas llamado Stone Towers y un recinto ferial de 450.000 metros cuadrados construidos, Cairo Expo City, que do
El término humanista aplicado a una ciudad hace referencia a un lugar en el que las trazas del pasado son aún intensas y evidentes; una ciudad en la que, en el curso de la historia, los esfuerzos intelectuales y físicos han configurado la Gestalt de
