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Article: Architect treads softly in shadows of history Vast Cairo center poses tall challenge for Denver's OLC.(Business)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2008
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Byline: Roger Fillion, Rocky Mountain News
For an architect, it's tough enough designing a huge facility covering 15 acres and housing a cavernous underground garage, a posh hotel and hundreds of thousands of square feet of office and retail space.
But to map out a $730 million, 8.1 million-square-foot business and tourist complex adjacent to one of the most historic Islamic sites in Egypt?
That can pose real headaches:
* Plenty of bureaucratic red tape.
* Top Egyptian officials and archaeologists who charged initially the project would blemish Cairo's skyline and threaten views of nearby historic sites.
* UNESCO ...