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.
Congo Kintele Congress Centre / AVCI Architects
The new Kintele Congress Centre and Resort Hotel (KCC) is in a newly developing area of Brazzaville, to the north of the new Olympic Centre. The site has panoramic views of the Congo River to the south and a forested unbuilt landscape to the north. The topography of the site is a valley carved out by the great Congo River which creates an island M’Bamaou in the foreground and the buildings sit ...
Tabanlioglu Architects Releases Plans for Marrakech Congress Center
Tabanlioglu Architects have released plans for the new Marrakech Congress Centre in Morocco in a design that continues with the firm's tradition of pattern based architecture. The design follows an authentic ideology of incorporating culture and identity into the busy city, southwest of Rabat. Living Culture Marrakesh is a major city of Morocco. It is the fourth largest city in the country, aft...
Ramses Wissa Wassef Arts Centre / Ramses Wissa Wassef
Near the pyramids at Giza, the centre was founded in the early 1950s by the late architect Ramses Wissa Wassef as a weaving school. It has since evolved to comprise workshops and showrooms, a pottery and sculpture museum, houses and farm buildings, constructed entirely of mud brick. For Wissa Wassef, vaulted and domed mud brick structures represented something quintessentially Egyptian as these...
Alliance Franco-Senegalaise / Patrick Dujarric
Built to house the Alliance Française, and to provide the provincial town of Kaolack with much needed library space, meeting areas, and classrooms, as well as performance and entertainment areas, the mission of the Franco-Sénégalaise Cultural Centre is to promote knowledge and understanding of the French language and culture. Its architect, Patrick Dujarric, grouped the various functional space...
Sinthian Thread Arts Cultural Centre / Toshiko Mori Architect TMA
The design of the Sinthian Cultural Centre is described as a parametric transformation of the traditional pitched roof, which is literary inverted to collect rainwater. The construction of this structure is found in a remote Senegalese village of Sinthian, close to the Mali border. This construction, begun by the New York Studio of Toshiko Mori, is designed in collaboration with two non-profit ...
Karura Forest Environmental Education Centre / Boogertman + Partners.
The winning entry in an open competition to design an environmental education center in the Karura urban forest in Nairobi, Kenya. Located in the northern part of Nairobi County, bordering the Muthaiga, Gigiri and Runda residential areas, the Centre will seek to educate people on the many species of plants, birds, insects and mammals to be found within Karura's diverse landscape.
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...
Equatorial Guinea Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy / Saraivae + Associados
Government buildings, in any developing country should set the pace for innovation, technology, sustainability and high-tech solutions for local problems. Located in Malabo, the capital and the largest city of Equatorial Guinea, this project intends to develop an architectonic solution of quality and functionality, which conciliates the concept of a modern image, connected to the surroundings c...
National Theater of Equatorial Guinea / Independent Architectural Diplomacy IAD
Designed for one of the smallest countries in middle Africa, the National Theatre of Equatorial Guinea acts as a cultural hub sited in the city of Oyala- one set to become the capital of an impoverished and ironically oil-rich West African nation. IAD- Independent Architectural Diplomacy, a spanish firm known for their striking and innovative designs, set out to define a form that is both poeti...
Sipopo Congress Center / Tabanlıoğlu Architects
Located in the coastal curve of West Africa, Equatorial Guinea includes several small offshore islands and an insular region containing Annobon and Bioko islands. Malabo is the capital and the second largest city of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island.
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...
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...
FOCHTA Vocational Training Centre/Sam Crawford Architects
How could Sam Crawford Architects, with their experience designing houses for well-off Sydneysiders, contribute anything of value to the design of a Vocational Training Centre for children orphaned by AIDS – in a foreign continent and context? Wouldn't it be better to employ a local architect? Why impose western ideas on Africans? The brief was simple yet daunting. It basically called for a Mal...
Upeo Camp, Lake Jipe / Urko Sanchez Architects
Most man made features are placed in nature, additions so to speak, but few individuals have developed high levels of empathy to it that they touch nature so lightly. Upeo Camp doesn’t only touch it lightly but rather enhances the existing by imitating and developing it. With two types of units one resembling the existing boulders and the other almost tucked inside the earth one will not even n...
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...
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.
Msafiri Mwazighe And The White Fields Of Sustainability: Swahili Cultural Centre
The project is a contemporary approach at modernizing the coastal region and still maintaining the tenets of Swahili architecture. This approach to maintaining the doctrines of Swahili Architecture are however not the main focus in the project as the more dominant project element has been on reacting to climate change within the Coastal region. The design has succeeded in propagating the Swahil...
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