the home of Al-Ahram, the leading Arab newspaper. Here also Shebib was the project's architect in chief, structural and site engineer. The surface of this building is 30,000 square meters which includes space occupied by the editorial, printing and administration services, as well as the public areas. Dome roofs In 1946, Shebib built the concrete dome roof of the 800 sq.m. Ali Baba Cinema, in the Boulaq district, using a technology that he subsequently patented. It consisted of a unique method whereby the concrete roof of a building is poured onto a mould on the ground and, once the concrete has set, is slowly raised into position to a height of 12 meters with the use of jacks. A similar dome roof, supported by only eight pillars, was used in the construction of De Soto's Sales & Service Bldg for the Cairo Motor Company. Other projects Shebib was also involved in several construction projects including apartment buildings, schools, churches, factories, commercial buildings, cinemas, individual residences and villas. His projects made use of structural elements of various types, such as mushroom structural supports, and thin concrete shell vaults, which became a signature element of his work. Although various types of foundations were used, he developed a special type of concrete ground slab foundations that made good use of thin vaults in the shape of hyperbolic paraboloids. Shebib also developed a pyramidal type of foundation. Sources Georges Binder, Tall Buildings of Europe, Middle East & Africa, Images (2007) References Cairo University alumni Egyptian architects Modernist architects 1985 deaths 1915 births 20th-century Egyptian architects