The Proposed Baghdad Renaissance Plan

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The Proposed Baghdad Renaissance Plan
Some private sector developments have also been proposed. One of these, The Proposed Baghdad Renaissance Plan [20], is a 25-year scheme, designed by architect Hisham N. Ashkouri to transform 9 km² of silt deposits into an "an up-market commercial and residential neighborhood" astride the Tigris River in central Baghdad, as well as nearby Tahrir Square. Tahrir Square was originally part of the central business district of baghdad, and Phase I of the plan focuses on the redevelopment of this area.[21] When finished, the "commerce, banking, medical, housing, broadcast and IT, exhibition, conventions and cultural centers" of which the plan is comprised would be occupied by up to one-half million people.[22] The project received encouragement by the U.S. Department of Commerce as well as other US and Middle East organizations. It is a vision for the future of Baghdad, Iraq and the region. A smaller-scale proposal of Dr. Ashkouri's is the Sindbad Hotel Complex and Conference Center[23], a high-rise hotel and movie theater complex which would be Baghdad's first skyscraper.

in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_of_Iraq#The_Proposed_Baghdad_Renaissance_Plan

Na minha opiniao o projecto e fraco. Para uma capital do futuro pais mais rico do Medio Oriente, se formos muito optimistas, o plano e muito fraco. Baghdad tem potencial de ultrapassar o Dubai e ser uma segunda Cairo Ocidental. Alem do mais estamos na regiao dos Jardins Suspensos e da magnifica Babilonia. Sera que nao existem arquitectos com criatividade suficiente de erguerem uma segunda Babilonia naquela regiao?

Mas se formos pessimistas Baghdad pode muito bem vir a ser uma segunda Cabul.

Mais Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_Square_Development

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Hisham N. Ashkouri

Este e o arquitecto que esta a apostar o seu futuro no Iraque com projectos.


+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisham_N._Ashkouri