Four Egyptian architects and projects have made it to the shortlist competing for the Mohamed Makiya Prize for Architecture, also known as the Middle Eastern Architectural Personality of the Year. This year, a total of 12 made it to the final round. Egyptian projects are represented by Cairo Heritage School, Film My Design, Hanaa Dahy and Radwa Rostom. The other entries include Ahmad Sukkar (Syria/USA), Ali Al-Lawati (Oman/UK), Arabesque (UAE), IWLab (Syria/UK), Jalal B. Mejel Algaood (Iraq), Mazen Alali (Jordan), Reparametrize Studio (Syria) and ZAV Architects (Iran). The award is given to individuals and organisations who have promoted, encouraged, campaigned or influenced (directly or indirectly) the advancement of architecture and the built environment in the Middle East between 2017 and 2020 Part of the Tamayouz Excellence Award programme that champions the best of architecture in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, the annual prize is named after the prolific Iraqi architect Dr Mohamed Saleh Makiya. Among the Egyptian finalists is the Cairo Heritage School (CHS), a collaborative educational platform dedicated to heritage, urbanism, architecture and the built environment. Established in 2015 by Deena El-Mahdy, Waled Shehata, Ahmed Tobgy and Ahmed Saleh, CHS works to bridge many gaps in the field of cultural heritage management in Egypt, and does so by providing a parallel education platform. Film My Design (FMD) is a Cairo-based...
2020-11-26 14:23:20
During the meeting of Mr. President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi with Dr. Mustafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, Mr. El- Sayed Al-Quseir, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Major General Amir Sayed Ahmed, Adviser to the President of the Republic for Urban Planning, Major General Mustafa Amin, Director General of the National Service Projects Organization (NSPO), and Staff Major General, Ehab El Far, Head of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority. Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has urged immediate implementation of a new developmental project, dubbed ‘New Delta’, as part of the state’s efforts to form modern agricultural and urban complexes, a statement by the Egyptian Presidency said. During the meeting, El-Sisi was briefed on the studies made by research teams from the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Service Products Organization, and academic authorities on the land allocated for the project. These studies have proven that the land of the project is fit for agricultural reclamation, in the framework of the mega- national project "New Delta" with an area of one million agricultural feddans, which includes within its scope the "Future of Egypt" project for agricultural production. The mega project, due to be implemented over 100 million feddans, also includes ‘the Future of Egypt’ project for agricultural production, Presidential Spokesman said. The project serves the state’s s...
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