Why enter the Africa Architecture Awards 2017?
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Recognition and reward
One grand Prix winner will receive the cash prize of $10 000 (USD). In addition, four trophy winners, one per entry category, will be chosen. All 20 short-listed entries will be invited to attend the awards ceremony.
It’s free and anyone can enter
There is no cost to enter the awards and multiple entries are allowed.Projects may also be entered into more than one entry category.
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All entries are showcased online and are eligible for online votes in the People's Choice Awards.
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Latest Award Entries
Visual assessment as a research tool for solving spatial problems in Khutsong Section informal settlement.
South Africa
A visual research methodology was applied to investigate in-situ informal settlements 'retrofitting' that is user-specific, site-specific, micro-scale, affordable, smart, light and scalable infrastructures that enable, support and strengthen the growth of existing micro-scale socio-economic activities: creating/cultivating an enabling architecture/platform for already occurring ‘events’ and ‘everyday’ rituals in the informal settlement.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2
The territory in-between
cabo verde
The project explores the interplay between physical space and the experiences of stages of migration. It takes on the form of a pit-stop for migrants. The project questions and highlights laws of entry and exit and manipulates rules from the conventional harbor or airport, as a critique on current border-policing.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
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NIGERIA ELEVATION TOWER
NIGERIA
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2
THE ANTHROPOCENE MUSEUM
As part of our ongoing research into Caves, we have published a short film that charts a survey of the Mbai Caves network, in Paradise Lost, Nairobi, Kenya.

Through a simple survey of an innocuous cave in Africa, we discuss architecture from a geological, political and cultural standpoint. Our "wild" proposition is to begin curating from here the vast network of evidence or in fact artefact sites of humanity's impact on this planet. Cultural events in the
arts would be integrated to bring greater awareness to the age we live in.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
3
THE EXCHANGE CONSUTATE: TRADING PASSPORTS FOR HYPER-PERFORMATIVE ECONOMIC ENCLAVES
The idea of constructing customised hyper-performing economic sites has deep relevance for a city seeking to chart its next wave of transition, particularly in the face of macro-economic volatility. This project unveils the enclaves, their modes of production, and the architecture within these sites that supports these modes of practices.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
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Graaff-Reinet House
South Africa
The brief was to create a more contemporary, open-plan living area for the family, that re-established the flow of the house and improved the general aesthetic of the home, while also re-connecting the back garden to the house to create indoor/outdoor living, as well as for the children to enjoy.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
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Showcase
The showcase is a space in which different African Regional Architectural Associations and Institutions award winners are recognised and celebrated. Projects displayed here are not automatically entered into the Africa Architecture Awards 2017. All architects included in the showcase are invited to register and enter before the cut-off date of the 30th of June 2017.