Prominent British architecture and integrated design firm Foster + Partners has won a competition to design the masterplan for Downtown Cairo’s Maspero Triangle District.
The Egyptian Ministry of State for Urban Renewal and Informal Settlements announced Monday that the innovative practice will be heading the previously contested urban development project.
Foster + Partners was founded by world-renowned British architect Lord Norman Foster and is internationally known for its pioneering work in sustainable and high-tech architecture.
The goal of Partners’ 35-hectare masterplan is to rehouse the low income population of the largely informal settlements in the Maspero neighborhood and introduce new residential, commercial and retail facilities as well to create a new lively urban hub in the heart of Cairo.