Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies.
Africa Fintech Foundry Headquarters / MOE+ Art Architecture
This project is a technology accelerator and co-working space in Lagos, Nigeria. During the summer of 2016 a competition was launched to design a building for a team of software developers and system architects at the African Fintech Foundry. The brief was a contemporary and stimulating workspace for fostering innovation through the collaborative production and incubation of ideas. Also importa...
New Research Centre for Nigerian Languages / BC Architects and Studies
BC Architects and Studies command a monolithic part of studies in their architecture practice. In this Nigerian project, they sort to explore local techniques of design and incorporated these into high contemporary standing to come up with the New Research Centre for Nigerian Languages in Llorin Nigeria.The concept, structure and appearance of the building are shaped by both awareness of the ac...
4th Mainland Bridge & Masterplan / NLE Works
To reduce this pressure, we propose an operation – the 4th Mainland Bridge. The operation will be the insertion of a bypass; a bridge within the body of Lagos. In addition to this bridge, we also propose a new heart to support the bridge. This ‘new bridge and new heart’ in the body of Lagos will not be typical infrastructure; they will connect people in large numbers and improve their natural f...
Dominican Chapel/ Demas Nwoko
Dominican Chapel is a landmark for the city of Ibadan. It is located in a hill with slight incline and it is surrounded with green lawns so that anyone can see the tower coming up from Oyo Road.
Alara Concept Store / Adjaye Associates
Alara Concept Store is perhaps West Africa's first signature and lifestyle store, a concept store made specifically for its products in its entirety. David Adjaye says "the Alara store will promote emerging talent while establishing a creative hub and an essential new designation for Lagos. Situated on the Akin Olugbade Street in an affluent Victorian Island area of Lagos, the shop borrows hea...
Nigerian Cultural Centre and Millenium Tower / Studio Nicoletti Associati
The Cultural Centre and the Millennium Tower of Nigeria, together with the National Square will make up a harmonious complex which will improve the quality of the City of Abuja. It is an ambitious proposal that extends two adjoining plots in the cultural, religious and administrative heart of the city. It is a refreshing approach that is in direct opposition to the traditional architecture link...
Eko Atlantic City / AR+H Architects
Dubbed as the future Hong Kong of Africa, the new upcoming city of Eko Atlantic is the most impressive urban development project in Nigeria and is setup as one of the greatest engineering feats in Africa. It is set to present opportunities for investors, business owners, residents and commuters alike with financial, commercial, residential and tourist accommodations run by a state-of-the-art hi...
TechU Ibadan campus / MZ Architects
Every once in a while, institutional projects break the prescribed path of mundane repetition and enters the league of extraordinary architecture. The makers of Eko Atlantic City, MZ Architects have achieved that daunting task with the TechU Ibadan campus, an ultra-modern institution for higher learning in Oyo State, Nigeria. The project is already hailed as the first of its kind in the country...
Calabar International Conference Center/ Henning Larsen Architects
Calabar, the capital of the Cross River State situated by the scenic river delta at the outfall of the Calabar River Channel, is already hosting numerous conferences and, with the completion of the new Conference Center, the city hopes to attract even more international meetings and tourists.
Glover 57 Apartments / Domaine Public Architects
Located in the suburbs of Lagos, Glover 57 Apartments are a superb manifestation of contemporary residential living. Domaine Public Architects responded to the specificities of the climate of the city and its lush landscape with a keen intent to create towering structures that prioritize views. All these features had placed the Glover 57 Apartments in the limelight with a nomination in the Worl...
Bloomsbury Waterfront Development/ NLé Works
The project is a premium office space that maximises the great views across the city’s waterfront within a strategic site plan that incorporates a green landscape and ground parking surrounded by a see-through boundary wall. Characterised by a white solid high thermal mass structure which reflects heat away from the building, and punctured with large irregular openings that allow for natural li...
Makoko Floating School/ NLÉ
The Makoko Floating School is movable 'building' or 'watercraft' currently located in the aquatic community of Makoko. It is a floating structure that adapts to the tidal changes and varying water levels, making it invulnerable to flooding and storm surges. It is designed to use renewable energy, to recycle organic waste and to harvest rainwater.
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