Lusanga International Research Centre Building
Designed by OMA, the White Cube is a central element of the Lusanga International Research Centre for Art and Economic Inequality, located in the heart of the plantation system.
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Grand Plaza Hotel in Cheraga, Algeria
Design: DNA Barcelona Architects. The aim of this project is to build an iconic building, able to relate with the city, which provides new services and experiences through architecture. The design could be compared to the shape of a ship, angular at its base, considerably higher on the levels above.
New Algerian Parliament: National Assembly Building
Design: Bureau Architecture Méditerranée. The building needs to embody the idea of democracy in action, the Algeria of the future, freedom, peace, strong but deliberative power. The architecture must communicate a distinct national identity founded on universal values.
Coral Hotel on the Seychelles Resort
Design: ARCHITECTS OF INVENTION. The Coral Hotel project includes advanced infrastructure: spa-complex, several restaurants and a club-house with a pool and a private marina. Project site has a direct access to the beach.
Finolhu Villas Hotel in the Maldives Resort
Design: Yuji Yamazaki Architecture. The world’s first entirely solar powered five-star resort is now open to guests. The Maldives has the lowest average ground level of any nation, which makes for some of the world’s most beautiful beaches.
Pediatric Cancer Centre in Kigali, Rwanda
Architects: David Adjaye – Adjaye Associates. This children’s pediatric cancer centre in Kigali, Rwanda, on a 4hectare site will provide a hospital and lodging facility for outpatients who need to reside close to the hospital, as well as residential housing for physicians and nurses
Disappearing Vernacular African Architecture
The desire to modernize has created a situation in which traditional customs and practices are being abandoned. This is true even in the most remote of villages.
British Council Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Building
The British Council, the UK’s leading institution for cultural relations, has just moved into their new offices in central Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a brand new 550 sqm building on part of the British Embassy compound which houses their new resource centre.
60 Sandbags Classrooms in Mauritania
In Mauritania FAREstudio operated at the Mbera Refugee Camp as ‘construction expert’ for Italian NGO INTERSOS, an implementing partner of a UN agency within the framework of a primary education program.
Youths Training Center in Central African Republic
FRC is a project that FAREstudio designed and partially managed in a post conflict rural area of Central African Republic of a youths Training Center for the rehabilitation and social reintegration
The Legson Kayira Community Center Malawi
This building explores the possibility of the school as a covered canopy. It offers a larger covered area that provides shade, open, well-lit and well ventilated spaces.
Bardo Cultural District Algeria: Constantine
In order to highlight the appointment of Constantine as the capital city of Arabic culture in 2015, the Wilaya Land Office launched an international competition for the design and construction of a new cultural hub in the Bardo District.
WATERBANK Secondary School Campus in Kenya
Samuel Eto’o sponsored ‘model’ rain harvesting school campus, that aims to transform education through a unique combination of water collection and agriculture using football as a catalyst, opens this month in Kenya’s Central Highlands.
Uzuri Hotel Resort, Zanzibar, Africa
Award-winning architecture and interior design practice Jestico + Whiles has been appointed to design a new hotel resort for RSJ Private Equity, on the beautiful island of Zanzibar, located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania.
Ramzi Towers, Lagos Building, Nigeria
Design: SPARK Architects. This is a residential tower development on Victoria Island, Lagos, for client Athena Capital Investment. Ramzi Towers is situated in the heart of exclusive Victoria Island. This 18 storey building is designed to give 360 degree panoramic views to downtown Lagos and across the Gulf of Guinea to the Atlantic Ocean.
House Duk in Johannesburg property
Design: Nico van der Meulen Architects. The clients brief was for a spacious home that expressed its appreciation for outdoor living. An open plan and practical house that lived out onto the garden was of utmost importance to them. Consequently the design developed into a layout that encouraged such a lifestyle.
Kigali Genocide Memorial Rwanda
Design: John McAslan + Partners. The new Amphitheatre designed by John McAslan + Partners marks the first phase of the practice’s masterplan for the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda. It will be formally inaugurated on Tuesday 8th April 2014.