Five Egyptian architects win the Tamayouz Excellence Award - Rifat Chadirji Prize 2020 [Sponsored]

Tamayouz Excellence Award  has announced the winners of its Rifat Chadirji Prize 2020, an annual thematic prize named after the prolific Iraqi architect and academic Dr. Rifat Chadirji, is a thematic international prize that seeks designs responding to local challenges. The prize, which is part of Tamayouz’s program of championing and celebrating architecture in the Near East and North Africa, aims to introduce local challenges to the world and invite architects, designers and planners to submit their concepts. It also aims to establish an uncompromising open source of ideas that tackle social issues through design. It worth mentioning that dame Zaha Hadid was a jury member in Tamayouz Excellence Award 2012. The first-place winner for the Rifat Chadirji Prize 2020 and the People’s Choice Award is a team of five from Cairo, Egypt: Ali Khaled Elewa, Mostafa Ahmed Zakaria, Sherif Khaled Abdelkhaleq, Hoda Essam Abdelmawla and Ebtisam Elgizawy. The winning team and their project LIVING PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE NILE was selected out of 177 submissions from 42 countries received this year. Description, as mentioned by the architects: The main objective of the living bridge is to maximize pedestrian exposure to the Nile, via stitching the urban fabric of the two banks together. Read the full post on Bustler