In November 2024, I traveled to Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, located 50 kilometers east of Cairo. Rising in the middle of the desert, the government and military are constructing a city that includes Africa’s tallest skyscraper, a defense ministry several times the size of the Pentagon, and a presidential palace surrounded by golden gates and obelisks.
Private construction firms have built tens of thousands of houses and apartments, divided into districts R1 through R8. These ghost neighborhoods are eerily empty—there are almost no shops, no playgrounds, no children, and no parks. To the south of the new capital, the „Egypt International City for Olympic Games“ is also under construction, even though Egypt has yet to secure a bid to host the Olympics.
All photos were taken with a Sony Alpha 7 II. If you want to know more about the New Administrative Capital, you can read my report for Stern Magazine.
