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We select what we consider to be the most interesting modern architectural projects in this continent and post frequently.
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.
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.
Australian-based international architecture firm PTW Architects design African Games Stadium: world-class sports stadium in the Republic of the Congo with ecological features and high standard sports facilities for the 2015 All-Africa Games.
Huvafen Fushi Resort Maldives design by Studio RHE, architects – new Indian Ocean building, Indian Ocean resort project
The new Hanimaadhoo International Airport is located on an island with very limited land mass for an international airport of this size. With airfield infrastructure consuming nearly all the available land the concept of a “floating terminal” has been selected by the Government for its innovative, exciting and eco-friendly approach. The proposed building is built entirely on stilts over water without reclamation to preserve the existing environment and the natural coastline.
5* island resort on Maldives, Indian Ocean. The architecture aims to respect the indigenous nature. One hundred small on-water villas on stilts are dotted through 4 of the 14 islands to create a disparate 5-star resort. The buildings also include beach-bungalows, a restaurant, beach-grill, pool-restaurant, spa, pool and a diving school.
SIPOPO Congress Center design by Tabanlioglu Architects in the Capital city Malabo of Equatorial Guinea, by the ocean and surrounded by the woods: rectangular two-storey building
DSituated on a cliffside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Villa Sow in Dakar, Senegal was completed in 2011, with SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects, the Architects and ANTONI ASSOCIATES doing the Interior Decor. The house was designed for a Senegalese businessman and his family.
Design: SAOTA Architects and Antoni Associates
“The owners brief was to design a dramatic, memorable house. The house needed to suit his specific aesthetic considerations and have the flexibility that it could be either partially or completely rented out. The client has a discerning eye for striking contemporary design and that, along with the fantastic position of the site lent, to creating an elegant response,” says Philip Olmesdahl, Project Partner.
Design: Söhne und Partner Architekten with BET architects. The competition entry with our local partners in Addis Ababa, BET architects, was rewarded with recognition. Conceptually speaking – with structural metaphoric relationship – the Insurance Company embracing life and property of its customers is depicted as embracing nature by placing the tower and the podium in a natural landscape.
Revival Sunset Chapel is a public church built in a forest in the center of the capital of Gabon, Libreville. In an extremely controversial state of central Africa the primary need is to find a reference symbol that unifies the moral area and the civil area.
This building has built by “grass-root grant aid fund” of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan) in area of Gombe Institute of Pedagogique, the center part of Kinshasa city, D.R. Congo.
Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and tucked away in the Fann Corniche, an area that houses exclusive villas and international embassies, the new Radisson Blu Hotel building design is a contemporary expression of Senegalese Style
In cooperation with BET architects from Ethiopia Söhne und Partner won the international design competition for Ethiopian Airlines New Headquarter in Addis Ababa.
Cape Town’s first post-apartheid skyscraper, the Portside project, designed by Louis Karol has won planning consent and construction has commenced.
The Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery consists of a hospital with 63 beds and 300 local staff, with a separate Medical Staff Accommodation Compound sleeping 150 people.
New Building in Addis Ababa. United bank represented in units coming together in to a single entity in a seamless fashion. These units are the shares that make up the bank.