Alárò City Project in Lagos, Nigeria by SOM
Alárò City Project in Lagos, Nigeria by SOM wins 2019 Architizer A+ Popular Choice Awards: master plan designed to strengthen city’s position as the economic hub for West Africa
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Ashinaga Uganda Dormitory Nansana Building
Designed by Terrain Architect Ashinaga Uganda Dormitory consists of six buildings that house classrooms, a canteen, separate dormitories for girls and boys, offices, and staff quarters etc.
Alioune Diop University Lecture Building Bambey
Designed by architects IDOM, Alioune Diop University campus was inspired by a large tree in the centre of the site – the new lecture building was designed as a place of shelter, shade and freshness for its students.
Joali Resort Muravandhoo Island, Maldives Hotel
73 luxury villas, restaurants & communal spaces on Muravandhoo Island, North Maldives: Joali with interior design by Autoban respects the island’s nature, using layering and visual richness by building a delicate balance and good flow between the spaces.
Dakar Railway Station Senegal Building, Africa
Iglo Architects have undertaken the consultancy of Dakar Railway Station Project, which is the first one of the railway station projects to be implemented in total 21 different locations in Senegal.
Solar Well in Senegal, Water Resource Africa
The structure surrounds the well to protect and give value to the water resource was designed by Raoul Vecchio Architect. The walls don’t create a closed space, but they include the context in the interior space.
Maldives Airport Economic Zone Mixed-use
Ocean’s Heaven, Maldives Airport Economic Zone mixed use development design by CAA (Core of Architecture & Art) Architects seeks to alleviate the negative impact of buildings on the environment
Villa Banalia Democratic Republic of Congo
Redesigned by BasaboseStudio Villa Banalia, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is both a renovation and an adaptation of an old industrial storage building.
Nyiragongo Villa I North Kivu Province, Congo
For the Nyiragongo Villa I, architects BasaboseStudio aimed at using the volcano stones readily available close to the North Kivu province as construction material.
A Blueprint for Africa’s Future Cities, Mauritius
A Blueprint for Africa’s Future Cities – Mauritius, the continent’s most progressive business orientated jurisdiction, has forward-thinking policies that have made the island nation ride the wave to the centre of investment and development.
Archasm Wilderness Pavilion Kenya Competition
Archasm Wilderness Pavilion Kenya Competition, East African design contest – “When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard” – with technological advancement, mankind becomes more apathetic about the natural ecosystem that it was once an indispensable part of.
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Lagos’s Wooden Tower Nigeria
The first Wooden Skyscraper proposed in Africa, designed by HKA | Hermann Kamte & Associates. Lagos’s Wooden Tower building introduces green construction to Africa’s largest city.
Bristol Zoological Society Field Research Centre
Landscape architect Grant Associates has teamed up with Bristol Zoological Society (BZS) and fellow Bath based architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios) in a project to save Madagascar’s critically endangered wildlife, including the blue-eyed black lemur, and their forest habitat.
British High Commission Project Accra, Ghana
Gilbert-Ash, has been awarded a fit out project on the British Embassy in Accra. Ghana is one of the world’s fastest growing economies and the UK’s fourth largest export market in Sub-Saharan Africa. The UK is a key partner to Ghana and is committed to advancing continued economic development in the country.
Mashambas Skyscraper in Manyoni, Tanzania
Architects: Ggrupa. An area of cultivated ground; a plot of land, a small subsistence farm for growing crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer
Nelson Mandela Childrens Hospital, Africa
UK-based architecture firms Sheppard Robson and John Cooper Architecture (JCA) collaborated in 2009 to win an international design competition for the new Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital in Johannesburg. The facility will employ 150 paediatric doctors and 450 nurses.