PYRAMID SCHEME It is the biggest architectural competition the world has ever seen and Christopher Honey (current project: a knickers factory) plans to win it. But to design the Grand Egyptian Museum, he will have to do battle with his annoyingly clever dad, a troublesome computer and over 1,500 other hopefuls. Christopher Hadley watches on

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: December 8, 2002| Author: Christopher Hadley | Copyright information

Christopher Honey stands on a building site like no other and tries to conjure from the sands his vision of the largest museum in the world. He points his camera eastwards, where the dunes tumble away to the desert road and the jagged rim of Cairo rises through the haze. "I have this incredible sense of solid, eternal presence," he announces. "Of a staggering achievement aesthetically and technically." Now he turns and looks towards the most fundamental expression of architectural endeavour i...

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