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Al-Bahar Towers

Project details Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE Architect: Aedas Associated Architect: Diar Consult Engineer: ARUP Construction: Al Futtaim Carillion Date Constructed: 2012 Height: 145m "The tower’s innovative dynamic façade opens and closes in response to the movement of the sun, reducing solar gain by more than 50 percent, creating a more comfortable internal environment for occupants [...]
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The Opus

Project details Location: Dubai, UAE. Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects Area: 284345 m² Owner: Omniyat Properties LLC Date Constructed: 2019. _ One of the personal projects I shot at the end of 2018. The project was still construction. I tried to captured the building in different angles and have some shots stitched together. The main challenge was to shoot the [...]
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Project details Location: Alexandria, Egypt Architect: Snohetta  Date Constructed: 2001 "From the shoreline, the library appears as a disc-shaped volume one hundred-sixty meters in diameter, tilted forward toward the water in the shape of a wedge. The architects intended the pure geometry of the circular plan to "recall the cyclical nature of knowledge, fluid throughout [...]
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Saint Barbara Church

Project details Location: Ash Sharabiyah, Cairo, Egypt Date Constructed: April 1943 The church was built in 1943 and its considered as the second coptic church to be built in this district "Ash Sharabiyah" Main Features: Interior: The Altar curtain is so simple that contains icons without any decoration, seems like it was inspired by the [...]
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Saint Mary Church – Faggala

Project details Location: Faggala, Cairo Date Constructed: 1884 "St Mary’s Church in Faggala is one of the oldest churches in Cairo. Faggala was given its current name because its land was famous for figl, Arabic for radishes." "In Khedive Ismaïl’s time, many wealthy Copts bought land in Faggala on which the palaces of that earlier [...]
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Saint George Church – Khamraway

Project details Location: Shobra, Cairo, Egypt Architect: Unknown (Italian) Date Constructed: 1925   Back to the 1925, the church was completed and it was considered to be the 2nd completed church after St. Mary Church Masarra (1.6 km away from the Church)   Main Features: Interior: The Altar curtain is unique as it contains icons [...]
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Saint Mary, Lady Of Kneeling Church

About: Location: Shobra, Cairo, Egypt Constructed: 1906 Back to 1906, Notre Dame De Repentance was constructed as a Monastery for Sisters where they used to knee all the time through shifting between them in which there was kneeing all the time in front of the Alter calling God for forgiveness. The Church has architectural features [...]
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Saint Antony Church – Shobra

Project details Location: Shobra, Cairo, Egypt Architects: Riyadh Gerges + Seif Nasrallah Contractors: "El-Khawaga" Wanis Mikhail El-Nekhaily. Date Constructed: 1935-1950 Area: 850 m²   St. Antony Church where more than 42 monks & sisters came out of it including 9 bishops, in addition to Pope Shenouda III. Back to the 1935, a 850m2 gross was [...]
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