The Faculty of Engineering in the arbitration of an architectural competition for the urban design of the the famous walkway of the West Corniche, under the auspices of The Province of Beni Suef, the governorate of Beni Suef, hired a team from the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of The University of Renaissance to arbitrate an architectural competition for the urban design of the famous walkway of the Corniche of Beni Suef West, within the framework of the active role of NUB in community service and development of the governorate of Beni Suef, under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Hossam Al-Mallahi- President of The Renaissance University, Engineer Mohammed Al-Rashidi – President of the Board of Trustees, and Prof. Dr. Salem Al-Khaderi, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
The team is made up of the professors of the Department of Architecture Dr. Iman Shaqour – Head of the Department, Dr. Ayman Hosni, and Dr. Rashwan al-Shahr, where the arbitration of the competition was subject to several criteria and then reached the top three participants who will be honored and awarded by Dr. Mohammed Hani Ghoneim – Governor of Beni Suef.
The competition was attended by more than seventy architects, specialized artists, and students in the architecture departments of the Faculties of Engineering and Fine Arts, where the ideas included designs for the most important Egyptian figures that influenced the Egyptian society and personality on the social, cultural or political level during the various ages of our beloved Egypt, along the length of the current West Corniche, and is already under way to implement a walkway in the West Corniche, The conditions that must be met in the designs provided included the work of a panorama of the most important Egyptian figures in the form of an open exhibition along the walkway with a recurring element or multiple elements depending on the design proposed by the rider, to take into account in the design the path of the current walkway implemented by the Engineering Authority of the Armed Forces, knowing that the main goal of the competition is to introduce the most important Egyptian figures and to highlight them and to immortalize them.
