The St. Regis Cairo Rises 39 Stories Above the Nile in a Michael Graves Design

The St. Regis Cairo occupies a 39-story tower on the Nile Corniche, designed by the celebrated American architect Michael Graves, giving the Egyptian capital a genuinely striking addition to its riverfront skyline. The tower's scale, combining 286 rooms and suites with 80 luxury apartments, makes it one of the more architecturally ambitious hotel projects on the Nile in recent memory.

Graves, known internationally for blending postmodern design with functional elegance, brought that same sensibility to a building meant to anchor one of Cairo's most visible riverfront addresses. Every upper-floor room takes advantage of the Nile views the site was chosen for, a defining feature for a hotel built specifically to capitalize on its waterfront position.

For travelers exploring Cairo's mix of ancient history and contemporary ambition, a hotel this architecturally distinctive on the Nile itself offers a genuinely different vantage point on the city than the historic downtown hotels closer to the older parts of town.

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