heneghan.peng.architects

Grand Egyptian Museum
Giza, Egypt, 2011
The client for this major museum, GEM Technical Committee, Egyptian Ministry of Culture, called for a museum of over 1 million square feet, located between the modern complexities of Cairo and the ancient Pyramids. At the intersection of modernity and antiquity, the museum will be an “inscription,” inscribing the point at which the visitor changes direction from the city toward the Pyramids. From the scale of the site to the scale of display cases, light will carve and define how the spaces of the new museum complex function, from its open-air system of parks to its precisely controlled environment of artifacts.

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