OHK Assesses Khedivial Cairo's Building Stock for Renewal Interventions

The Hotel Viennoise building is being assessed for historic preservation and economic reuse as Class A office space. It has been acquired by Al-Ismaelia for Real Estate Investments, a key partner in the vision for  renewed Downtown Cairo. Photo… — The Hotel Viennoise building is being assessed for historic preservation and economic reuse as Class A office space. It has been acquired by Al-Ismaelia for Real Estate Investments, a key partner in the vision for renewed Downtown Cairo. Photo © OHK Consultants

Over the course of two weeks and as part of OHK’s ongoing project to help develop a strategy of urban renewal for Khedivial Downtown Cairo, the OHK team, led by OHK, conducted site visits and assessments of more than fifty signature historic buildings across the Downtown area. The buildings reflect Cairo’s remarkable urban heritage dating from the early 20th century, exemplifying its considerable aesthetic, cultural, and architectural diversity. Our assessment of Downtown neighborhoods will feed into a program of rehabilitation and refurbishment combining the preservation of urban heritage with improved building energy efficiency and sustainability measures. Our planned interventions will be tailored to Cairo’s unique urban heritage at both neighborhood and building scales, leveraging new urban business models and economic uses that generate equitable wealth for owners and tenants, mobilize public-private partnerships, and create a vision for the long-term redevelopment of Downtown Cairo.

For more information about OHK’s urban rehabilitation practice and its ongoing work in Cairo’s Khedivial Downtown, contact us.