Street-level view of the Nile Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Wust El-Balad (Downtown Cairo), a landmark luxury hotel overlooking Tahrir Square on the Nile Corniche. The building features a modernist curtain-wall glass facade with horizontal banding across multiple floors, photographed under an overcast sky. Originally opened as the Nile Hilton in 1959, it was one of the first international luxury hotels in Egypt and a historic landmark of modern Cairo before reopening as the Ritz-Carlton.