via Designboom - Weblog on 6/10/09
cairo expo city by zaha hadid architects
image courtesy zaha architects
zaha hadid architects has been awarded first prize in the cairo expo city competition
together with global engineering consultancy buro happold.
the winning design for cairo expo city is a 450,000 square metre, state of the art city
for exhibitions and conferences, located between the centre of cairo and the city’s airport.
the project comprises a major international exhibition and conference centre with business
hotel. a further office tower and a shopping centre are also proposed.
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 centre to ease crowd traffic during event. the movement of people within these
streams informs the building entrances on the site.
works will begin in october this year to clear the site.
cairo expo city - aerial view
image courtesy zaha architects
cairo expo city
image courtesy zaha architects
cairo expo city
image courtesy zaha architects
cairo expo city
image courtesy zaha architects
cairo expo city
image courtesy zaha architects
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