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Mogamma: Exterior · The Mogamma government building Cairo in May of 2015
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Mogamma: Exterior · Mogamma building at Tahrir Square in Cairo (with the minaret of the Omar Makram Mosque on the right)
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Mogamma: Exterior · The Sadat Station of Cairo Metro in 2015
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Photo 1: Exterior · The Mogamma government building Cairo in May of 2015Photo 2: Exterior · Mogamma building at Tahrir Square in Cairo (with the minaret of the Omar Makram Mosque on the right)Photo 3: Exterior · Mogamma, Tahrir Square, Cairo, EgyptPhoto 4: Exterior · The Sadat Station of Cairo Metro in 2015

Civic · Modernism

Mogamma

Mohamed Kamal Ismail · Cairo, Egypt · 1949

Key features14-storey modernist government block on Tahrir Square, practical rather than decorated; planned for about 4,000 staff.

Architect
Mohamed Kamal Ismail
Place
Cairo, Egypt
Year
1949
Typology
Civic
Movement
Modernism
Region
Middle East
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