ProgramsCAIRO DOWNTOWN PASSAGES WORKSHOPYear: 2014 Location: Kodak Passageway Client: DEDI, CKU Scope: Workshop Cairo Downtown Passages aims to develop a pilot urban design and art project in the northern part of downtown Cairo, highlighting existing and emerging initiatives and activating underutilized public spaces. This passageway redevelopment project emerged from a design workshop held in April…
DesignCIMATHEQUEYear: 2013 Location: Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Client: Cimatheque – Film center Scope: Renovation, Development and Implementation Cimatheque is an alternative film center dedicated to celebrating the diversity, beauty and power of film from the region and beyond. Cimatheque is located in Downtown Cairo, in an important historical building with pronounced Art Deco features. In…
DesignDOUM CULTURE HOUSEYear: 2012 Location: Abdeen, Cairo Client: Doum Culture Foundation Scope: Renovation and Development (Concept) As an emerging cultural foundation promoting critical thinking and literary culture, DOUM Foundation was interested in finding a location Downtown within the historical context to be re-modelled to the needs and programs of its mandate. The chosen site is…
DesignCINEMA RIALTOYear: 2012 Location: Al-Fajjala, Cairo Client: Natik Awayez and Linnea Carlsson Scope: Renovation and Development (Concept) Rialto Cinema represents the peak of the film industry in Egypt in the 1930s and 40s and is located in al-Fajjala, which in the twentieth century was a middle class, culturally vibrant and ethnically mixed district. With the…
DesignBAB SAADA PERFORMING ARTS CENTERYear: 2011 Location: Al-Khalifa, Cairo, Egypt Client: Bab Saada Performing Arts Center Scope: Renovation and Development (Concept) Renovation plans were drafted in 2012 for the Bab Saada Performing Arts Center by CLUSTER for client Al Mawred al-Thaqafi, to convert the disused Cinema Wahby into an independent performing arts space. Located in…