Award Entries: Built
Bamboo House
Nigeria
Bamboo House Completed : 2012 Location : Illashe, Lagos. Our vision for this beach house was rooted in its context and the experimentation of locally sourced materials, to design a modern building that would be reflective of our culture, acknowledges modernity, contemporary design,and belongs to the locality.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
191
Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital
South Africa
“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Nelson Mandela. The brief was to provide a world-class paediatric facility that would create an environment that was welcoming, playful and family-orientated, providing quality child healthcare in a natural healing environment.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
6
BRITAM Tower
Kenya
BRITAM tower is a thirty storey 30,000sqm multi-tenanted development in Upper Hill, Nairobi. A 1200sqm square floor plate at ground level rotates through 45 degrees to exactly half at the penthouse. The glazed curtain wall is screened from solar radiation by a 'veil' of ceramic rods.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1
University of Johannesburg Lecture Hub
South Africa
The University of Johannesburg strives to ‘inspire its community to transform and serve humanity through innovation and the collaborative pursuit of knowledge’. The new auditoria personify these principles in built form; the existing Brutalist monoliths connecting to previous institutions, the new expressing dynamic transformation and progress.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1
ENCHORO, Kenyan heaven
KENYA
How to use local material for a house in a contemporary way. The lack of local building equipment coupled to a tight budget, guided us towards a simple but modern home. The building’s orientation provide natural ventilation, meeting our goal to produce a house with zero energy requirement
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People's Choice Total Votes:
6
Concrete House
South Africa
The architecture acts as an extension to the rocky hillside, with the occupants seemingly inhabiting a mountain face. The home is firmly rooted to the hillside through some impressive engineering, while also protruding out of the hillside as if it were shaped and morphed over time into its current condition.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
4
Mamelodi POD
South Africa
The project entailed the design and construction of a small housing unit in the informal settlement Mamelodi, Pretoria, South-Africa. The design fills the gap between informal and formal housing. South Africa has 2700 informal settlements with millions of inhabitants living in substandard conditions.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
4
Aldeia Solar
Angola
Aldeia Solar creates a settlement for 500 low-income families, ensuring a self-sufficient farming community with public spaces and respecting a landscape with multiple baobabs, sacred trees in Africa. Generated by the landscape, it is energetically autonomous with flexible houses attached to small farms, delivering a better life to many people.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
145
THREAD: Artists' Residency and Cultural Center
Senegal
Situated in a remote Senegalese village, THREAD offers multiple programs for the community and also fulfills substantial domestic and agricultural water needs. The building’s traditional design relies on local materials and construction techniques with climatic considerations also figure prominently into the building’s form and orientation of the different spaces.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
13