As the story of the cosmopolitan Alexandria continues, Moassat building is considered one of its most touching chapters.
Located near the Chamber of Trade, Moassat building was originally executed in 1929 to help funding Moassat Hospital through its income.
With a 300-seat theatre in the ground floor, the Italian architect Ricardo Smith applied his vision of the Neo-Romanico style using the facing brick within the Islamic pointed arches. Read more..

Built with a new concept of integrating retail, offices, residential and hospitality, the English family Zirvodaki built its iconic building in the heart of downtown Alexandria. The family hired architect Henri Bernau, who introduced the Art Deco style in the historical context of the neighborhood.
The Ottoman Bank in addition to Leroy Hotel was ranked with Shepherd Hotel in Cairo 100 years ago and ensures the supremacy of the building, which was considered the highest buildings in the city at a time.

The building was designed by the Greek architect N.Gripari, the Italian family "Averino" hired him after some problems immerged with the formerly assigned architect "G.Loria". The eclectic revivalist styles of the late nineteenth century perfectly expressed an architectural pluralism and the pro-European cosmopolitanism that prevailed in the city.
Between the two world wars, the most favored architectural expressions became the decorative and early modern international styles.
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The Cordahi Complex was built between 1921-1928 on the site that was occupied by the former prestigious Zizinia Theatre (1863-1917).
The new Complex was designed by the French and Cairo based architect George Parcq, commissioned by Mr. George Cordahi one of the most prominent financiers and developers in the city.
The Theatre and the two adjacent blocks were seized from their last owner Pierre/ Badr El Din Cordahi in 1961.
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Another phenomenal case of the trend of italianizing Alexandria, assuring the cosmopolitan spirit, Riccardo Smith's practice with the wealthy family Heikal to build their own apartment building beside along the tramway between Al Mansheya and Ramleh Square.
Through applying the facing bricks facade and the colored mosaics, the historicist revivalism experiment has its recognizable icon, the building's orientation of form, projecting light and shade contrasts on the building's facade, which was completed in 1929.

Once owned by the famous business man Bedir Pasha, who hired the architect George Parcq, the designer of the Stock Exchange building and the Egyptian Central bank in Cairo, the building consists of two main parts interconnected with a court, where Bedir Pasha took his car from, he was believed to be from the very first men to own a car in Egypt.
The building was considered to be one of the tallest buildings on Suleiman Pasha street in downtown Cairo.

The building is located in the intersection between Emad el Din street and Al Alfy street, where the renovation project is now taking place in downtown Cairo, located two blocks away from part from Khedive Cairo designed by Antonio Lasciac. It is considered to be a successful try to merge the Islamic architecture with the European trend of building. Style: Neo Islamic.