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Photographed by: Christian Richter
Photographed by: Shay Connolly
The National Cancer Institute on Kasr Al Eyni Street south of the hospital. Built in 1969, the main portion of the building has been vacant for several years—in 2015, a move to a major new 9-million square foot campus in the distant new enclave of Sheikh Zayed City, 17 miles west of the city center on the desert edge of urban Cairo was announced, to be designed by SOM.
Last August, a car bombed exploded at the base of this building, killing at least twenty. The exurban campus has yet to be constructed, the NCI operates from a 2-level building in the shadow of this broad, empty tower.
Photos November 2016 and March 2020 Bauzeitgeist.
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The Shepheard’s Hotel, next door to the Semiramis Intercontinental on the Nile Corniche just south of Tahrir Square. Like the Semiramis, it was an historic 19th century palace hotel—Englishman Samuel Shepheard first opened lodgings on a nearby site in 1841. The famous landmark was destroyed in the anti-British fires of 1952 and replaced with by this larger modern riverfront block in 1957, which has been closed and stripped down under a very slow renovation that has been on-going since at least 2014.
Photo March 2020 Bauzeitgeist.
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Inter-war period art deco house in the “P&O Style”. An eccentric lived here for many years, but it now looks like the joint is being stripped out. Unlikely to survive. Earlwood.
