Dezeen Competitions: a competition run by Design Unlimited seeks design proposals for a new Digital Heritage Museum of Egypt in Cairo. With many ancient Egyptian artefacts stored away from view ...

Plans for the museum had started out promisingly enough: a worldwide design competition was launched by the Egyptian government in 2002, followed just weeks later by the ceremonial laying of the ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), opening its doors on 3 J. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT. ... An international architectural competition brought forth the winning design, ...

So far, the Grand Egyptian Museum has taken more than 20.) ... and the Dublin-based firm Heneghan Peng Architects won a competition to design the building in 2003. Construction began in 2005.

Peng and his Irish architect wife, Roisin Heneghan, founded Heneghan Peng Architects in New York. Their design won a competition against 1,556 submissions for the new museum commissioned by the ...

After years of delay, the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo was unveiled in a limited soft opening on Wednesday last week, finally giving people a peek at the design concept of Taiwanese-American ...

Egypt opened a series of galleries to the public on Tuesday in its flagship new museum, but the glittering King Tutankhamun collection and solar boats buried by the Pyramid of Khufu are yet to be ...