Award Entries: Built
Sandibe Okavango Lodge
Nicholas Plewman Architects and Associates - Botswana
Organic and handmade, the lodge blends perfectly with its surroundings, becoming one with the Delta itself. The Lodge promotes conservation and eco-tourism through sustainable design premise, respecting the Okavango Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
21
Eco-Shelters in Guiné-Bissau
ColectivoMEL - Guiné-Bissau
Over one year, we followed this process as architects with our camera by trying to capture colours, sounds, smells, techniques and local materials, textures and testimonies. The architectural design was a part of a process involving the participation of the community, since the concept to the conclusion of the project.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2
5 Informal Schooling Pavillions in Guiné-Bissau
ColectivoMEL - Guiné-Bissau
This documentary was made during the course of the construction of 5 Informal Schooling Pavilions in Guinea-Bissau during the year of 2016, throughout the territory. Our aim was to record the process of the works, as well as the beautiful and interesting spatial context where they were built.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
5
House Inanda
JVR Architects & Interiors - South Africa
Nestled in the heart of Sandton, the design was driven by the client’s desire to create a space that was reflective of the evolution of their relationship, an amalgamation of diverse interests and passions. The layout consists of three barns placed rhythmically over the site celebrating the existing established trees.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
665
Pink Box
CEICA - Angola
The "PINK BOX" Exhibition is an Architecture installation. The main objective is to draw attention to one problem in Luanda, the urban waste. Civic awareness is oriented towards the improbable relationship between trash and beauty, awakening the citizen's eye to "garbage that is not garbage" and "trash can be beautiful".
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1050
One Heart Foundation - Orphanage & Children's Eco-Village
O2 Design Atelier - Kenya
The project is to create a conducive place to learn, play and live for Kenyan orphans. The Children's Eco-Village design inspired by Kenyan Maasai architecture emphasizing on the community, robust in-between spaces and use of local materials. The design reinvents traditional form for a large institutional and housing facilities.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
15
DADA
Architecte - Sénégal
l’Académie renvoi à un temple du savoir et du savoir faire s’intégrant naturellement dans un véritable espace vernaculaire entre terre, ciel et mer au large des cotes de l’Océan Atlantique. il s'agit d'une juxtaposition de formes entre architecture, nature, cultures, autonomie énergétique et de matériaux écologiques.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
3
Off the Grid House
Architecture for a Change - South Africa
The main idea was to create a lightweight, off the grid, and affordable house. The design philosophy relates to critical regionalism within architectural theory. The South-Africa residential design market is still stuck with conventional building methods that aren’t suitable for our environment (colonial building methods).
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People's Choice Total Votes:
17
Nakayale Private Academy
WES Architects - Namibia
Nestled between beautiful trees and lush vegetation of Northern Namibia, one will find Nakayale Private Academy. The school opened its doors in January 2016 with 60 students, all receiving free tuition and boarding on 50 hectares land donated to the Dirk Mudge Trust by the Western Diocese of ELCIN.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
67