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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.

Sarah De Villiers And The Fantastical Realm of Growth: The Idea Bank

Architecture is a solution oriented process and it aims at making life more valuable. Through questioning the present, designs are able to develop important stepping stones into the future. And though ideas at times seem wild at their inception, in the long run they prove formidable. Sarah De Villiers questions and challenges the present financial institutions with her heartwarming and welcome ...

US Embassy Maputo/ Allied Works Architecture

Realizing a design that incorporates security while ensuring transparency can be a hard nut to crack. However, the new US Embassy design embraces a concept that comprises an intricate interlacing of weaving, screening and revealing. The perceptual sense of safety granted to embassy habitats is surreptitiously provided through the choice of walling materials (a series of site-cast concrete walls...

Abilonino Community Polytechnic/ Lexicon + Ion Architects

The Abilonino community polytechnic project proposal by Lexicon is a project that attempts to achieve a subsequent layering approach to space-making through a thoroughfare experience that not only creates spaces but embraces them towards formal and informal poise. The project organized by the Ugandan Ministry officials sort to build a completely new college including classrooms, workshops, lab...