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.
Manuel Herz wins Tambacounda Hospital Project in Senegal
Tambacounda Hospital is the only hospital in a large region of eastern Senegal. It serves the 100,000 inhabitants of the city of Tambacounda - declared the hottest metropolis on the planet - and more than a million people from the surrounding region and Mali, whose border is about an hour and a half away.
Africa Architecture Awards Announces 20 Shortlists For the Inaugural 2017 Fete
The inaugural Africa Architecture Awards has just shared with us the 20 shortlisted projects out of an unprecedented 307 entered projects situated in 32 African countries.
Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital / Sheppard Robson + John Cooper Architecture + GAPP + Ruben Reddy Architects
The Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital in Johannesburg is the first purpose built paediatric hospital in South Africa. The commission for the hospital, provided by the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund was won by John Cooper Architecture with Sheppard Robson, in an international competition. The design is one of four dedicated children’s hospitals on the African continent, creating a much needed f...
Francis Kere Opens Radically Simple Exhibition
The Architekturmuseum der TU München presents »Francis Kéré. Radically Simple«, the most comprehensive exhibition yet on Kéré’s work, covering both his completed designs and his ongoing projects. In addition to the buildings that he planned and realized in his home village of Gando, the exhibition displays his buildings in Africa and China, as well as his projects and designs in Germany, where ...
Film: Torill Kove's 'Me and My Moulton' Has 5 Signs That Your Parents Were Architects
This short animation by Oscar®-winner Torill Kove (The Danish Poet) follows a seven-year-old girl and her sisters, who ask their parents to get them a bicycle. Our young protagonist struggles with her sense that her family is somehow unconventional, and her loving yet hopelessly out-of-touch parents prove to be a source of quiet embarrassment and anxiety. With a bright palette, this film views ...
Cultural facilities, Housing and Offices / BOM Architecture
BOM Architecture is the winner of the competition for the construction of the 1st Museum of Architecture in Africa and in the Arab World in Tangier, Morocco. The proposal envisions a development which consists of three different sections: The Museum of Architecture ‘’Maison de l’architecture, 133 housing units, and retail shops and office spaces.
The Boogertman + Partners Architectural Design Scholarship Award Africa 2016 is Back
It is about that time of the year when Boogertman + Partners Launch their Partners Architectural Design Scholarship Award Africa. This Award is awarded to one individual over a period of two years, and is valued at R140 000. This award includes an individual mentorship programme for the duration of the recipient’s studies, as well as a two year work contract at Boogertman + Partners after recei...
AfriSam-SAIA Award 4 Sustainable Architecture 2016 is Now in Session
Online entries for the 2015/2016 AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture + Innovation are now open and feature two new award categories. Alongside the two mainstays, Sustainable Architecture and Research in Sustainability, we now have additional categories for Sustainable Products and Technology and Sustainable Social Programmes - making the Award South Africa’s premier platform for rec...
One Airport Square / Mario Cucinella Architects
One Airport Square is a world-class multi-functional building minutes’ walk from the most important venues in the city. It was designed by the award-winning sustainability architect, Mario Cucinella Architects.It hosts 2,000 sqm of commercial spaces on the ground floor and ten-floor office block on the southwest of the lot, due to the specific form and orographic features of the site.
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.
Concorde Kintélé Sports Complex/ PTW Architects
The New Kintélé SportsComplex located in Kintélé; 20km from the capital city Brazzaville was built by a Chinese Company. The sports complex replaced former farmlands and covers over 80 hectares.
Offices for Bührmann & Partners / Wasserfall Munting Architects
The result of a mini competition, the new office complex for Bührmann & Partners Consulting Engineers is the manifestation of a longstanding working relationship between the respective practices – and more particularly between Sigi Teetz and Jaco Wasserfall – that began almost two decades ago and has since matured into a dynamic partnership built on mutual respect and a shared passion for a...
Egypt inaugurates Museum of Arabic Calligraphy in Alexandria
A modest Classicist-style office building within the premises of theAlexandria Museum of Fine Art has been re-designed and adapted to house a new Museum of Arabic Calligraphy. The adaptation introduced a new glass curtain wall that combines Islamic motifs with modern design, and screens off the unchanged original facade. The design, implemented in 2010, included the scenario for a new exhibiti...
Office of The Auditor General/ Wasserfall Munting Architects
Architecturally speaking, the biggest challenge was to design a building with a language and overall expression befitting the image and status of the office of an auditor general: an uncompromising and distinguished presence, yet restrained, timeless, inclusive and neutral. Other important design considerations were the contribution of the new building to public urban space within the city, and...
WAF 2015 African Projects Shortlist
The World Architecture Festival announced the shortlist for its 2015 awards. The awards program had more than 700 entires from architects and designers representing 47 countries. All the finalists will be invited to present their project live at the festival in November at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore to a "super jury" that will include Sou Fujimoto, Peter Cook, and David Basulto. A winne...
Hilton Hotel Windhoek/ Wasserfall Munting Architects
The new Hilton (Eliakim Namundjebo Plaza) Hotel in Windhoek, Namibia, forms the first phase of the proposed Freedom Square development, an 80,000m² mixed-use precinct in the heart of the capital set to transform the urban face and dynamics of the CBD.
The Amphitheatre of El Jem/ The Roman Empire
The structure measure 149 meters long, 124 meters wide and 36 meters high, and has three stories. The outside circumference is around 427m which is 100m shorter than the Colosseum. The stories consist of a series of arches formed from composite engaged columns which was a Roman development combining elements of Corinthian and Ionic columns. An internal stairway leads to a covered walkway that r...
School Brousse-Besely/ Jean-Paul Viguier & Associates
When Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés, Unibail-Rodamco and Eiffage Construction were designing the new generation Majunga Tower in La Défense, Madagascar they committed to support the associations Schools of the World and Children World to construct a school in Besely, Madagascar, a bush village of 543,000 inhabitants located in the Mahajanga region of northwestern Madagascar.
Casa Port Railway Station/ AREP
Casablanca is a modern city in Morocco with a concentration of Art Deco and international style and modernist buildings which tries to draw a lot from the vernacular Moorish architecture of the area. It is a modern city which has undergone change in a short time from experimental lifestyle of the residents. The city urban planning is also undergoing reorganization hence the Casa Port Station fi...
Marrakech-Menara Airport Extension/ E2A Architecture
The International Airport of Marrakech-Menara serves international flights from and to Europe as well as domestic flights. It is located 6 km southwest of downtown city center and 7km of the Djemaa el-Fna.
Courtyard Houses / Jean-François Zevaco
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture winning Courtyard Houses by Jean-François Zevaco were commissioned by the Moroccan Ministry of Interiors on a site which is 5,200M2 of flat terrain in the very centre of Agadir. Agadir is a Moroccan City on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, near the foot of the Atlas Mountains.
Mohammed VI Football Academy/ Groupe 3 Architectes
The Mohammed VI Football Academy located in Salé, on the right bank of Bouregreg River, opposite the capital Rabat is a private academy that offers education, schooling and Football. The Academy was initiated and partially financed by personal funding from the King of Morocco in 2006, with an aim to raise the ranking of national football to the top of the Africa charts and compete at internatio...
Rabat-Salé Urban Infrastructure Project, Hassan II Bridge / Marc Mimram Architecture
The Rabat-Salé Infrastructure Project is part of a 6,000 hectares development of the Bouregreg Valley which aims to rehabilitate and promote the banks of the Bouregreg River to offer a pleasant place to live for the people of Rabat and Salé.
Taroudant University / Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani, Mohamed Amine Siana
Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana tried to avoid the clichés of the context alone by adopting a very modern development which also adopts the massiveness, strength, relief and the poetic nature of the forms of developments in the South.
The Technology School of Guelmim/ Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani, Mohamed Amine Siana
The Technology School of Guelmim in Morocco is part of the development of academic institutions in the Southern regions of Morocco. The School development comprises of an amphitheatre, classrooms, workshops, TP rooms, administration buildings, library, lecturer’s offices and staff accommodation. The architects’ concept was to provide a contemporary and modern design which was inspired by its co...
BMCE Branches / Foster + Partners
The BMCE (Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur) Headquarters in Rabat, Morocco by Foster+Partners which opened in March 2011 is one of these banks. BMCE a leading bank in Morocco needed to create a series of exquisite flagship branches which could be scalable ("kit-of-parts" approach) and inspire the look and feel of the future branches throughout the country and signal a dynamic presence in ...
Grand Théatre de Rabat / Zaha Hadid Architects ZHA
On October 7, 2014 His Majesty King Mohammed VI, launched the Official start of construction of the Grand Theatre in Rabat with a desire was to give Rabat a theatre that will raise it to the rank of major cities of the Mediterranean. The project which is approximately 27,000m² in area enjoys a remarkable location between the ancient twin cities of Rabat and Salé on the shores of Bouregreg River...
Head Office Ernst & Young / Wasserfall Munting Architects
Wasserfall Munting Architects is a Windhoek practice that prides itself in its dedication to the pursuit of design excellence and simple clarity in the architectural solutions it proposes. The Ernst & Young (EY) Chartered Accountants building represents a rather exceptional company. It has been conceived to give expression of an innovative, unconventional building that challenges traditiona...
Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique / Kaan Architecten
Man, security, diplomacy, dignity, respect, nationhood, the state, separation of powers, union and freedom...these are the words that impregnate the mind at the sight of the royal dutch embassy in Maputo, Mozambique. It is a clean fresh take at embassy design, only rivaled by the British embassies across Africa. The clean crisp lines, suave white washed walls and timber struts that dot the peri...
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