WestonWilliamson + Partners has won an international competition for the new 125,000 m2 ‘Science City’ complex to be built on the western edge of Cairo, in the heart of the 6th of October City. Organised by the prestigious Bibiliotheca Alexandrina, and judged by a panel of world-leading academics and science entrepreneurs, the single-stage contest sought both a comprehensive masterplan and a conceptual design for the new campus. The brief was to create a set of buildings and spaces that ‘must be inspiring on the outside and motivating and exciting on the inside to visitors and employees alike’. Concepts were required that ‘express a particular vision of the quest for knowledge and the pursuit of science’. The new Science City complex will be built on the western edge of Cairo and will feature an exhibition hall, museum, conference centre, research hub, planetarium, observation tower and outdoor park.