International Design Interiors Fashion Travel – Wallpaper Magazine, selects Cairo’s Al-Azhar Park’s photo as their favorite. Via Tate Modern Exhibition.
What does it mean in this day and age to live in a city and what are the social, environmental and architectural consequences of these staggering statistics? These are the questions at the heart of the Tate Modern’s exhaustive exhibition ‘Global Cities’, which opens on 20th June. — Wallpaper.com
PROJECT: AL-AZHAR PARK
By the mid-1990s Cairo had one of the lowest ratios of green space per inhabitant in the world; at only one square metre per resident it fell far below the World Health Organisation’s recommended eight square metres per person. Al-Azhar Park was one solution to the problems of these extreme population pressures.
Designed to rehabilitate one of Cairo’s poorest and most populous areas, the park was created by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture on a 30-hectare site used as a dump for over 500 years. Mosques, palaces and historic houses are being restored alongside initiatives to provide residents with apprenticeships, employment, health centres and women’s associations. ARCHITECT/PLANNER: HISTORIC CITIES SUPPORT PROGRAMME (HCSP); SASAKI ASSOCIATES; SITES INTERNATIONAL CLIENT: GOVERNORATE OF CAIRO COMPLETION DATE: 2004
Ismailimail 
Just observe the bricks and stones surrounding the park. This green space is a marvel and one to relish…
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waw cairo ,what a beuatiful place !!!!!!!
Insya Allah I will be student of Al-azhar cairo
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GOOD LUCK KEMAL ADIITYA.
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