Fouda Tower

Fouda Tower (Arabic: برج فودة), also known as Zamalek Tower, is an unfinished skyscraper located in the Zamalek district of Cairo, Egypt. Standing at 166 m (545 ft) tall, it is currently the tallest building in Cairo and the second-tallest structure in the city, surpassed only by the 187 m (614 ft) Cairo Tower. Originally planned as a 450-room luxury hotel, construction of the tower began in 1972. However, the construction of the building was halted in the 1980s primarily due to an unending series of bureaucratic obstacles, permit battles, building code violations, and lawsuits that followed the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. The project was never completed and remained abandoned for decades due to the lack of a private garage. In February 2025, the Morshedy Group acquired it from a state-owned bank for EGP 2.5 billion. The developers announced plans to convert the 50-story skyscraper into a high-end mixed-use residential and hotel complex.