CAIRO EXPO CITY Cairo, Egypt 2009–TBC Render © Zaha Hadid Architects PROGRAM: Exhibition & Conference Centre with Hotel, Offices, Retail. CLIENT: GOIEF, Egypt SIZE: Area: 473400 (exhibition halls, conference centre and mixed use) Towers: 31 & 33 storeys CONCEPT: Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposal for Cairo Expo City delivers an iconic architectural vision for a unique facility for Cairo, a city for Exhibitions and Conference between downtown Cairo and the airport. The project comprises a major international exhibition and conference centre with business hotel. In addition to the above two offi ce towers and a shopping mall are proposed, creating a rich ensemble of diverse functions which caters for multiple audiences and activates the site across different times and days of the week. The urban strategy of the Cairo Expo pursues the idea of creating a homogeneous urban cluster mass that adapts to the