Cairo Expo City will include modern exhibition spaces and conference rooms with a total area of 450,000 m2, as well as a hotel, office building and a shopping center. The complex will be located between the city center and the airport.
This ambitious plan continues the line of projects designed to create Cairo's image as a world-class business center - including the first Egyptian project, Hadid, recently unveiled by the Stone Towers complex.
As in that case, the architect turned to the nature of the region in search of inspiration - the streamlined forms of the Cairo Expo City buildings echo the landscape of the Nile Valley, a combination of smooth relief changes and water flow. Hadid recalled that large rivers, including the Tigris, on which her native Baghdad stands, play a crucial role for the entire Middle East region, determining the rhythm of life and the structure of urban development.
Since exhibition complexes are characterized by the amalgamation of structures and infrastructure facilities of various functions over a large area, the flow motive has become the optimal solution both for organizing Cairo Expo City itself and for its connection with the environment. Individual buildings will be combined into blocks, each of which will receive its own compositional structure. In turn, they will be subordinated to the main axis of the ensemble, which runs from north to south. Work on clearing the construction site should begin in October this year.
Hadid's rivals in the final of the competition were the architects of the Snohetta bureau.
