Award Entries: Built
Sol Plaatje University
South Africa
Sol Plaatje University, located in Kimberley in the Northern Cape is one of two new universities to be set up in post Apartheid South Africa. The university is designed as an urban campus integrated into the fabric of the town as a catalytic urban regeneration project.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
367
A journey with stainless steel
South Africa
This submission details the exploration of a single material, stainless steel. It tracks the route that The Matrix has traveled with this material in the last ten years: from the conceptualization, to the production of documentation and the realization of a variety of objects.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
33
Aquiles Eco-Hotel
Cabo Verde
The architecture is simple, raw and flexible, and it talks with the other houses and the small buildings all around The structure is composed by 13 wooden container sized rooms, set in a beton brut structure and painted with lime putty.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
153
Terra Lodge
Cabo Verde
In the middle of the atlantic ocean, a french trekking guide decide to build his own hotel; 'Ramos Castellano Arquitectos' create for the travelers, Africa’s first contact place, Terra Lodge. Almost everything is handmade, employing people from the neiborough, distributing the economy of the building costruction in the social environment.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
184
CONTEXTS/Concrete Building
Cameroon
A project under construction depicted from several angles : .the design; .the interior of the building site with its fundamentals; .the exterior through its sequenced views. Here,the sense of architecture is given by these passages of stages in order to bring the boundary of the drawings to the reality.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
71
Bay of Luanda Waterfront
Angola
The Luanda Bay Waterfront seeks to protect and renew its urban pattern legitimized by its history and public use. With 510 000m² of new landfills, it generates a large urban park for the vitality of Luanda collective life that enables greater social interaction and boosts recreational and cultural activity.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
5101
AHS High School New Campus for Music and Art
South Africa
Music converted into architecture. Trumpets announce this space with their sound waves visible in the paving. Various building functions are brought together by the concrete peristyle. Its column spacing alludes to notes. A brick soldier course choir leads to more intimate interior courtyards where retaining walls & planters dance.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
305
Projet de construction du siege de l'Institut National de la Statistique a Yaoundé au Cameroun
Cameroun
L'Institut National de la Statistique de Yaoundé au Cameroun est un Bâtiment bureau sur 10 niveaux soit un R+7 avec 2 Sous-Sol et un toiture terrasse. Son caractère moderne répond aux exigences environnementales de l'heure avec tout ce que sa comporte. C'est un ensemble architectural harmonieux et particulier.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2
OSCM Cape Verde
Cape Verde
OSCM is a Research Building in Ozean and Klima It´s a very simple Solution, with Performance about natural Lighting, Ventilation and Photovoltaik Paneels and Protection from Sun. it´s very integrated in the Location an respect all the Location Skills. The View remember a Lobster in the Ozean.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
51