Datum Antique: Houari Boumedienne Agricultural Village By Ricardo Bofil Taller Architects

The experience that RBTA has gained in the construction of housing developments was called on by the Algerian government, through the agency of France, to be applied to the construction of new centres of population in semi-desert areas where agriculture was to be promoted.

Guelimì House / Ilaria Di Carlo

The 600 square metre Villa was commissioned by a contemporary art dealer in Algeria as her new home and a place to host her private collection and some small events related to the art gallery. Given the harsh condition of the sun during good part of the year and at the same time the need to control the light in terms of quantity and quality to exhibit and protect the art pieces, it was decided ...

Regulation for Postal Communication Authority ARPT Headquarters / Mario Cuccinella Architects

The Mario Cucinella conceived building seems to rise from the ground like a creature eager to explore the world after a long hiatus in hibernation, it is a building categorically envisioned as a series of dunes, a clever literal abstraction of nature towards the art of form making, something the firm of Cucinella has come to be identified with. Though still at its infancy in feasibility stage, ...

Constantine Exhibition Centre / PTW Architects

Africa is rising, from a slow economic downturn to a possible intimation in coming years and what better way to express that than through architecture. Algeria is preparing itself for a subtle move into one of the preeminent exhibition venues within the continent with PTW in joint venture with CCDI recently winning the second stage of a competition in Algeria to design and document the first st...

Grand Mosque of Algiers / KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten Gmbh

Algeria boasts the third largest mosque in the world in the Grand Mosque, a magnificent edifice that towers above the city of Algiers erected at the present bay of the city. The mosque is a conglomeration of various religious and cultural midpoints and on common ground aligned from west to east in the direction of Mecca in tandem with Islamic tenets. The programme is split into two with the wes...

New Algerian Parliament / Bureau Architecture Méditerannée

It is important to recognize the character of the Architecture of the North. This is where the New Algerian Parliament  by Bureau Architecture Méditerannée comes into play, a building deeply enshrouded in Arabic tenets and heavy symbolism. It seeks embody the idea of democracy in action, the Algeria of the future, freedom, peace, strong but deliberative power. The design communicates a distinct...

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