INTERVIEW/Taiwan-born architect brings life, death into Egyptian museum design
10/25/2024 02:53 PM
After years of delay, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Cairo, Egypt was unveiled to the world in a limited soft-opening on Oct. 16, finally giving people a peak at the design concept of Taiwanese-American architect Peng Shih-fu (彭士佛) and his wife Róisín Heneghan.
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