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.
— citylab.com
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Yikes. How bad is Cairo that rich people would pay to go live out there?
At least it answers the question of why we need architects and what you get when you leave the design of the built environment to developers and engineers.
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