This compound was built on a land owned by Tahrir Publishing Organization on the of Khedieve Ismail downtown Cairo. It is on Ramsis street connecting Tahrir square to Cairo Central Railway station.
The site qualified the building to contain a printing workshop for faster distribution than competitors of late night newspaper editions to different parts of Egypt via railways.
The concept of the design was for a vertical extended building to provide available building areas for editorial offices above a printing shop responding to orders from newspapers, periodicals and commercial printing. Having editorial offices above a printing shop required special construction, mechanical and electronic arrangements.
The design took the functioned symbolic architectural approach. The whole building expresses both the traditional office spaces above the electronic publishing Medias. The main floors constitute a large open book with windows as printed lines. The podium represents one running newspaper under print exhibiting hieroglyphic and Arabic letters cut in stainless steel sheets.
The whole building is covered with (ECOMAT) aluminum sandwich panels.
