New Africa architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects office updates. African building news for the whole continent.
We select what we consider to be the most interesting modern architectural projects in this continent and post frequently.
The creation of a waterfront park: Which varies in size and activities according to the functions it fronts. Rather than a waterfront promenade, the waterfront park aims to create a truly vibrant public space by including specific activities and happenings through its length.
The urban development plan for Beauséjour, on the Sainte-Marie town in La Réunion, aims to meet a tremendous challenge. It consists in taking an outstanding 80 ha site of sugar cane fields
British Council Building: Government Office in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania – architecture design by The Manser Practice, architects practice headquartered in London, England, UK
An innovative school designed to ease water shortages in a semi-arid region of East Africa is to open later this month. The WATERBANK™ School, conceived and designed by US based non-profit PITCHAfrica, demonstrates the dramatic potential of rainwater harvesting in semi-arid regions and aims to put an end to Water Wars.
Scheduled to open in March 2013, the Chinzombo camp is being designed by acclaimed architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens, the visionaries behind North Island in the Seychelles and Little Vumbura Camp, an eco-luxe lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta.
Given the opportunity to be engaged in a project with high social concerns, the C Spot comes as a reflex of a sustainable mission where the developer contributes to reduce levels of illiteracy by awarding the communities where they build roads, and viaducts, and bridges with a Spot, which is more than a school, but actually a space that foments social elevations through education.
Football and athletics-loving Ethiopians will have a new FIFA and Olympic-standard 60,000 seat stadium in Addis Ababa thanks to a competition winning design combining local identity with new technology.
The design of the new Swiss Embassy in Yaoundé pays tribute to its renewed presence in the Cameroon and a respect for the uniqueness of the site.
Capita Symonds has unveiled plans for a major new office development in Lagos, Nigeria. The Heritage Place scheme will be a landmark within Lagos combining striking façade design and top-end office space.
Designed for an owner / occupier the development comprises a Penthouse Villa for family use, 8 rental apartments, a clubhouse with recreational facilities, an office suite and a small mosque.
Uganda architecture, African brick making – Vocational Training Centre for Former Child Soldiers, Patongo – Uganda school building, new school in Africa.
Kampala Tower Uganda, skyscraper building Africa – design by Capita Symonds, Architects – Kampala Tower, Uganda building, skyscraper design Africa, architecture.
Merging architecture and landscape, the design of the 20 bed Staff Residence for Village Health Works in Kigutu, Burundi is a romance between east African elemental aesthetics and inventive off-the grid sustainability.
This month we submitted our Stage D design report for a Prototype School building in Burkina Faso to our local partner AEAD. Burkina Faso is one of the least developed countries in the world, with the UN Development Program Report ranking the country as having the lowest level of literacy in the world.
In August 2009, the homes and businesses of 19,000 people in Njemanze, Port Harcourt, were reduced to rubble over the course of a single weekend.
Butaro Hospital, Rwanda building by MASS Design Group – Rwandan Ministry of Health, Partners In Health, Burera healthcare facility news
The Central African State of Ruanda, commonly known as the “land of a thousand hills”, is rarely the focus of West European interests