The Grand Egyptian Museum
The Documentary Podcast
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The Grand Egyptian Museum
The grand egyptian museum was designed by Irish architects rashin hennigan and shifu peng. The building is set in a desert garden of hundreds of raw palm trees. It's truly enormous, like a vast aircraft hanger of sorts. Its roof a sequence of concrete and glass wings with motifs that reference the pyramids. But such architecturean ring come at a price - it cost 700 million dollars to build.
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