Name
Year
Hasan-Kachef Palace
2024


Project Info
Hassan-Kashif Palace (Elevation) Cairo — circa eighteenth century, no longer extant A late Ottoman-Mamluk residence on the western edge of the Ezbekiyya district, seized in 1798 by Bonaparte's expedition to house the newly founded Institut d'Égypte. The palace held the Institute's library, laboratories, and the natural-history collections gathered by its members across Egypt. The elevation is drawn from the surveys carried out on site by Pierre-Joseph Protain. The building did not survive the nineteenth century. Architect unknown


Code
qts_04_ori_hasan_kachef
