Archinect - News2024-12-22T02:15:55-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/118984560/photographer-documents-egypt-s-monumental-housing-developments-in-the-desert
Photographer documents Egypt's monumental housing developments in the desert Alexander Walter2015-01-22T19:59:00-05:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/47/47c513123473574131bd51d4bb3b9957?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Egypt is in the throes of a severe housing shortage [...]. But one thing the country has an abundance of is lonesome desert, and developers are turning there to construct immense projects that stick out in the emptiness like skyscrapers on Mars.
London-based photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro has a yen for the monumental [...] naturally he was interested in the colossal structures rising on the outskirts of Egyptian cities.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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