Rehabilitation of the City of Shibam, Wadi Hadhramaut, Yemen by GTZ Technical Office and General Organisation for the Preservation of Historic Cities of Yemen (GOPHCY). This magnificent "Manhattan of the Desert" rises once more with preservation works to strengthen and stabilise the mud-brick highrise buildngs clustererd in a walled mass. Jury Citation: Located on the threshold between past and presetn, traditiona nd modernity, this walled city of vertical mud-brick highrises, with its labyrinthine streets and lanes, unfolds its own iterative narrative in a stunning, almost oneiric topography.
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