Egypt
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Project • By Studio Marco Piva • Residential Landscape
Sharm Bay Marina
Sharm Bay Marina is a visionary project entrusted by Talat Moustafa Group to the multicultural and multidisciplinary SMP team, led by CEO Armando Bruno, seamlessly fusing the timeless charm of Italian Mediterranean Architecture with the stunning natural beauty of Sharm El Sheikh's Red Sea coastline.
Studio Marco Piva
Spanning an expansive 1.2 million square meters around the world-class international marina adjacent to the Four Seasons Resort at Sharm El Sheikh, the project is holistically conceived—from master planning and architecture to interior design—and integrates residential, commercial, and mixed-use typologies around a vibrant marina that serves as the heart of the community, redefining luxury living and mar... More
Project • By Leonardo Marchesi • Temples
Hoilday house
Luxor is a modern city built on the foundations of Thebes, the ancient Egyptian capital of the New Kingdom. The whole city was built on the east bank of the Nile, where the pharaohs decided at some point to build a gigantic temple complex dedicated to Amun.
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The site was always under the construction eyes of the pharaohs, since the pharaohs use to build their homes in brick, (stone was dedicated to temples and tombs), thus not much has been left of ancient royal palaces.
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The House in Luxor sits on an island, isolated from the noise of the city and aim to reverse the housing construction tradition; a house built with gigantic blocks of stone secured in place by gravity alone.
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For this reason, the Hous... More
Project • By Leonardo Marchesi • Private Houses
Pyramid House
Egypt is undertaking a rapid transformation in its urban contexts and not just Cairo is expanding towards the west, but many other towns are on their way to evolve their limits, Abydos included. The urban development of Abydos has been a work in progress since the dawn of civilization, distant about 10km from the Nile has been the sacred home of Osiris and the capital of the Old Kingdom’s Upper Egypt for centuries but never saw what the Egyptians used to build, a pyramid.In ancient Egypt, a house served the same purpose but with two different timelines, a lifetime and an after lifetime, for the first category Egyptians built palaces with courtyards and colonnades, whether for the second category at the peak of the Old Kingdom civiliza... More