Project story · Giza, Egypt
A garden on every floor
In Giza, The View stacks rounded floor plates so that every level gets sky, light and a planted edge. Beyond the terraces, the pyramids.
By byJOOM · The View · Hospitality and resorts
Rounded floors, shifting
The building is made of rounded floor plates that step and shift, so that each level gets sky, light and a planted edge. It is a vertical garden in a dense city, with a view. A continuous sweep of balcony ties the building together, so that the stepping reads as one movement rather than as a stack of separate floors.
A ribbon of balcony
Close to, the balcony is a pale, curving ribbon that wraps each floor, with planting along its edge and slatted timber behind it. The glass sits back from the ribbon, so that every room has an outdoor edge of its own and the façade has a soft, layered depth instead of a flat skin.
Sitting beside the pyramids without imitating them
The pyramids are the most famous silhouette in the region, and a building in their view has two options: shout or be quiet. The View is quiet. The curving balcony lets the building sit calmly beside the pyramids without imitating them, and the planted terraces give it a softness that no monument has.
Planting at every level
Every level has a planted terrace, and the ground floor opens and stays active at the street. For the guests who stay here, the design offers three things that a dense city rarely does: a garden, shade and a view. The planting is not a finishing touch; it is part of the section.
Human scale, living planting and a quiet palette keep it in step with its setting for a long time.
Seen from the street
From the street the building is a pair of rounded masses stepping up together, with the city's own blocks around them and the pyramids rising on the horizon. It has the rhythm of a hillside more than a tower, and it keeps a human scale at the level where people walk.
A quiet palette, a long life
Rounded edges, living planting and a quiet palette keep the building in step with its setting for a long time. The View is not trying to be the next landmark. It is trying to be a good neighbour to the oldest one.
This article describes design intention. The images are design visualisations, not photographs of a finished building. See the Disclaimers.