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Ramses Hilton

Ramses Hilton

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The Ramses Hilton is a 35-storey purpose built hotel on the Nile Corniche Street, in the Bulaq district of Cairo, Egypt. It was designed by the New York-based architects Warner Burns Toan & Lunde in collaboration with the Egyptian architect, Ali Nour el-Din Nassar.[1] Its structural engineer was famed Egyptian civil engineer William Selim Hanna.[2]

The Ramses Hilton, Cairo, Egypt.

The 909-room hotel consists of a four-level podium of public spaces enclosing an atrium and a 30- story triangular tower of guest rooms and suites, with a restaurant/observation deck with "views of the distant pyramids."[1] The building was designed in 1976 and was scheduled for completion at the end of 1979,[1] though opened in 1981.

In 2019, a four-year LE 1bn. refurbishment of the hotel was planned.[3]

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Architectural drawings

References

  1. [1]
    "News Report" (PDF). Progressive Architecture. October 1976.
  2. [2]
    "Das neue Ramses-Hilton-Hotel in Kairo". Schweizer Ingenieur und Architekt. 1980.
  3. [3]
    "Arab International Company for Hotels directs EGP 1bn to develop Ramses Hilton over 4 years". 2019-11-28.


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