The ensemble, called Stone Towers, will include office buildings, a hotel, housing, shops and cafes, as well as a new square called the Delta, probably after the Nile Delta. All buildings will be surrounded by green spaces.
Since Egypt is only trying to become an attractive investment destination, like the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, for Cairo such a large project from the top ten architect is something new.
Hadid took into account the peculiarities of the climate in her work: in North Africa, very bright sunny days make up most of the year. The facades of the buildings, facing north and south, form a varied "landscape" of ledges, niches and openings, which create contrasts of shaded and illuminated sections of the wall. This solution emphasizes the streamlined contours and curved lines of buildings.
According to the architect, when working on Stone Towers, she was inspired by the artistic and mathematical traditions of the Arab world, which helped to avoid the "monotony of repetitive static volumes" of the buildings in the project: for this, a geometric rhythm of similar, interconnected, but at the same time having an independent meaning was applied. forms - a rhythm that ultimately creates a continuous composition.
