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The Centre des Cultures et Spiritualités Ewés (CCSE) is a project initiated by the Kothor Foundation, whose aim is to promote the culture and historical heritage of the Ewé people through the construction of a multi-faceted site. The project also aims to change the way visitors and the general...
A short, 12-minute film from the Victoria and Albert Museum takes viewers insides some of the buildings in Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, the exhibition at the V&A that looks at the colonial origins of Tropical Modernism in British West Africa.
Swiss architects Manuel Herz and Heinrich Degelo are together realizing a settlement in western Cameroon, a complex that was designed with local people and is being built exclusively by locals.
Three examples from Africa show how architecture can respond to crises. The African continent is particularly affected by the impacts of climate change as well as poverty and associated diseases. At the same time, crucial decisions are being made in such places.
Approximate number of people who follow the @african_brutalism account on Instagram, a collection of photos of African modernist and brutalist architecture (with 241 posts, as of today):...
Amount Morocco plans to spend to rebuild each individual home that was completely destroyed by the earthquake that hit on September 8, 2023:...
Frequency with which the Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali, is freshly plastered in mud: Yearly
Increases in the prices of building materials between January 2022 and May 2023 in Nigeria, Africas biggest country: 70%
Approximate number of buildings that collapsed in Nigeria in the year 2022 (according to a report of the Building Collapse Prevention Guild): 61
Net worth of Africa’s richest person, Aliko Dangote, founder and chair of Nigeria’s Dangote Cement, the continent’s largest cement producer, who says: "A lot of foreigners are not investing...
Estimated cost of Burj Zanzibar (Zanzibar Tower), the 70-story residential high-rise with 266 units proposed for Fumba Town on the semi-autonomous...
Typical thickness of a wall made of mud (banco) that, in a country like Senegal, provides natural insulation from the sun and...
Share of the world's 250 biggest contractors who are Turkish and are challenging China as leading builder in Africa: 40
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art speaks with artist Ibrahim Mahama about his installations that often consist of buildings covered with jute sacks, a material synonymous with the trade markets in Ghana, where he lives and works.
Francis Kéré's design of the new national assembly building to be located in Porto-Novo, the capital of Benin, was inspired by the palaver tree, "the age-old West African tradition of meeting under a tree to make consensual decisions in the interest of a community."
Estimated share of research on the impacts of climate change on world heritage sites that is related to Africa: 1%
The Arch for Arch stands as a tribute to the human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, affectionally known as “Arch” by fellow South Africans, as well as a monument to peace and democracy.
VernissageTV takes a peek inside Thomas Heatherwick's Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) in South Africa, which has its grand opening 22-25 September 2017.
The aptly named hotel from The Royal Portfolio opened recently in Thomas Heatherwick's conversion of a historic grain silo at the V&A Waterfront in the South African city. The Silo sits above the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), which will open later this year.
The new Currency Museum is located on the bay waterfront of Luanda, in the heart of the city downtown, at the Major Saidy Mingas Square, nearby the charismatic headquarters of the National Bank of Angola.
Vitra Design Museum's Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design may have closed on September 13th, but for those who missed it the museum has a 25-minute tour of the exhibition from curator Amelie Klein.
Kilimanjaro Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organization (KWIECO) was founded in 1987 in Moshi, Tanzania. It provides advice on legal, health, social and economic issues to women.
"The owners brief was to design a flexible contemporary family residence. The site was spectacular requiring a design that could respond to a challenging slopped corner site and its aspects" says Thaabe Ramabina of SAOTA.
"The brief was to create a home for a Johannesburg based family that could eventually be used as a family home but would initially be used for holidays."
At a recent ceremony in Beirut, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for Africa and the Middle East, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve."