Cairo Expo City
Zaha Hadid Architects

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Located between the centre of Cairo and the city's airport the design for Cairo Expo City delivers a unique facility for Cairo - state of the art city for exhibitions and conferences.

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.

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As the exhibition spaces require the greatest degree of flexibility, we wanted to ensure that all the public spaces and formal composition of Cairo Expo City relate to the surrounding Egyptian landscape. Along the great rivers of the region, most particularly the Nile, there is a powerful dynamic - a constant flow between the water and the land - which extends to incorporate the neighboring buildings and landscapes. For the Cairo Expo City design, we worked to capture that seamlessness and fluidity in an urban architectural context.

/Zaha Hadid

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Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects