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 Thu, 12/11/2008 - 18:33
The Women's Centre, built in a suburb of Rufisque, offers facilities for the activities of the various organisations formed by the local women. Grouped around an internal courtyard; the line between private and public is clear but flexible. Including facilities reserved for trading, the building's red colour gives the house its own identity amidst the general grey tone of the city blocks. Working in several African countries, the Finnish architects Saija Hollmén, Jenni Reuter and Helena Sandman, making up the HOLLMEN REUTER SANDMAN Architects, started their collaboration in 1995. Today, their activities span across architecture, interiors and urban planning. Their works have been honoured with both national and international awards and have been published and exhibited widely.
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 Fri, 10/17/2008 - 10:15
MMA Achitects (Cape Town, South Africa) was awarded a prize for their pioneering design in new affordable housing systems. “The idea was to utilise design to come up with innovative housing solutions using the plot size and budget usually allocated to an RDP (Reconstruction and Development Programme)house”.
Originally paired with Will Alsop, the MMA Architects, developed a system which comprises sandbag walls, creating the thermal mass, with a lightweight "ecobeam" truss (timber-frame structure). South African architectural firm MMA Architects has won the Curry Stone Design Prize at the 11th International Venice Architecture Biennale.
The newly-established Curry Stone Design Prize honours “innovative achievements in humanitarian architecture and design”. MMA was awarded a prize of US$100 000 for their pioneering design in new affordable housing systems.
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 Wed, 09/10/2008 - 11:01
Saint Joseph Convent School by Anthony Almeida
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Title: Saint Joseph Convent School
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Architect: Anthony Almeida
Year: 1954-1958
Function: school
The Saint Joseph's School is a secondary school, with rooms on top to house the sisters who were running the school.
The school's name is now "Forodhani Secondary School".
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 Fri, 06/20/2008 - 13:37
Ambatofotsy train station
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 Fri, 06/20/2008 - 13:25
office building cameroon
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 Thu, 04/10/2008 - 13:35
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Title: Kariakoo Market
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Designer: Beda Amuli
Year: 1972-1974
Function: market place
The area was studied during the workshops 'Modern Architecture in Tanzania around Independence', held in July 2005 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The Kariakoo Market is placed in the former African quarter of Dar es Salaam.
The open space around the building is occupied by market stands.
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 Tue, 04/08/2008 - 15:29
Anne-Katrien Denissen
Ouvrons nos esprits… et nos cœurs. Let us keep both our minds… and our hearts open.
This is how Victor Emmanuel Cabrita, President of the Dak’art 2006 Orientation Committee starts the introduction of this year’s Biennal catalogue.
The year 2006 is a year of changes, the most important one probably being the opening to international expertise. The ‘biennale de Dakar’ keeps on developing and improving in a professional way. With the changes made this year, Dak’art should increasingly become a place for African artists to find an international audience.
Ouvrons nos esprits… et nos cœurs. Let us keep both our minds… and our hearts open.
This is how Victor Emmanuel Cabrita, President of the Dak’art 2006 Orientation Committee starts the introduction of this year’s Biennal catalogue.
The year 2006 is a year of changes, the most important one probably being the opening to international expertise. The ‘biennale de Dakar’ keeps on developing and improving in a professional way. With the changes made this year, Dak’art should increasingly become a place for African artists to find an international audience.
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 Thu, 04/03/2008 - 15:30
Anthony Almeida (b. 1921 in Dar es Salaam) is a Tanzanian architect who has produced numerous remarkable buildings over the past fifty years.
Almeida was educated in Bombay and graduated as an architect in 1948 at the JJ School of Architecture. His studies were hindered by the civil disobedience campaign during the struggle for independence. One of the projects he worked on in India was a ‘pandal’, the temporary bamboo structure, 158.5 metres in diameter, which housed the first post-independence Congress Party meeting. Anthony Almeida (b. 1921 in Dar es Salaam) is a Tanzanian architect who has produced numerous remarkable buildings over the past fifty years.
Almeida was educated in Bombay and graduated as an architect in 1948 at the JJ School of Architecture. His studies were hindered by the civil disobedience campaign during the struggle for independence. One of the projects he worked on in India was a ‘pandal’, the temporary bamboo structure, 158.5 metres in diameter, which housed the first post-independence Congress Party meeting.
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 Thu, 03/27/2008 - 14:55
Annemieke de Kler
From October 2 until December 3, the exhibition ‘Asmara – Africa’s Secret Modernist City’ was held at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum in Berlin. For the first time the rich architectural heritage of Africa’s secret modernist city Asmara was on show in Europe. The exhibition in Berlin, based on the book Asmara - Africa's Secret Modernist City by Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren and Naigzy Gebremedhin, was the initiative of the Asmara Project Group, in which Eritrean and German architects worked closely together. From October 2 until December 3, the exhibition ‘Asmara – Africa’s Secret Modernist City’ was held at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum in Berlin. For the first time the rich architectural heritage of Africa’s secret modernist city Asmara was on show in Europe. The exhibition in Berlin, based on the book Asmara - Africa's Secret Modernist City by Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren and Naigzy Gebremedhin, was the initiative of the Asmara Project Group, in which Eritrean and German architects worked closely together.
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 Thu, 03/27/2008 - 14:50
Neza Cebron Lipovec
In 1979, the historic royal compound of the capital of the Abyssian kings, Fasil Ghebbi (fig.1) in Gondar, Ethiopia, was listed as a World Heritage Site . Not only, as stated by the III criterion, it bears an exceptional testimony of cultural tradition or a civilization that has disappeared: known as the Gondarine “Renaissance”. In 1979, the historic royal compound of the capital of the Abyssian kings, Fasil Ghebbi (fig.1) in Gondar, Ethiopia, was listed as a World Heritage Site . Not only, as stated by the III criterion, it bears an exceptional testimony of cultural tradition or a civilization that has disappeared: known as the Gondarine “Renaissance”. Moreover, in accordance with the II criterion, it exhibits important interchange of human values, over a span of time and within a defined area, mainly in architecture and technology.
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