The Monumental Museum of Egypt Is Taking Shape

September 06, 2008

World Architecture News has an interesting update on the Grand Egyptian Museum:

"The Grand Museum of Egypt’s design team, consisting of international multi disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, architects Hparc and Arup, has completed the submission of 5,000 drawings to form the construction documentation for this major Egyptian artefact conservation project... The Museum will house 50,000 exhibits including the whole of Carter’s Tutankhamen collection, with the total number of exhibits rising to 100,000 in the future. To house the collection, the gallery floor area will take up 25,000 sq m out of a total of 100,000 sq m built area..."

Most interesting are the rendering images provided by the architects:

Museum from the outside

Another view