Award Entries: Speculative
SAVANNAH SAHEL HERITAGE MUSEUM
GHANA
The Savannah Sahel heritage Museum is an architectural edifice to be built as part of the proposed Savanna Sahel Heritage Project, a collaborative effort between governments of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mali. The design reflects the common indigenous, cultural, religious and artistic heritage of the three countries.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1478
Saba, guest house and artist residency
Kenya
Saba is a mixed use project consisting of a guest house and an artist residency. The intervention addresses the underfunding of cultural spaces in Kenya. The intervention proposes the re-appropriation of holiday guest houses in to artist residencies.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
18
Panzi Hospital New Mother Baby Unit
RD Congo
In close dialogue with Panzi Hospital’s management and staff, White and partners have developed a concept for a centre where women can give birth in a safe and professional environment. The unit is the first stage of a long-term masterplan developing the hospital’s structure over the next 10-15 years.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
166
Kimbópolis
Angola
“Kimbópolis”, a neologism created to describe a new urban approach in rural areas (Kimbo), without breaking their habits and customs, building techniques and environment, but rather organizing, modernizing and systematizing them to form an city embryo (polis), with reference to the socio-spatial organization of rural communities
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People's Choice Total Votes:
227
Lagos's Wooden Tower
Nigeria
Lagos’s is a proposal of residential tall wooden building in Nigeria that has been shortlisted in the International Competition ‘Plan B: The City Above The City’, organised by MetsäWood And Has Won "The Bronze A'Design Award 2017 " for "Architecture, Building and Structure Design" category.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
381973
The Forgotten - Dead Or Alive
Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, Chad
The Forgotten is a humanitarian research and proposed plan for the regeneration of the Dying Lake Chad. If nothing is done, it will Die and belong to the past. This Place the Threshold of Civilisations and a patrimony. It need to be preserved for us and our planet.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
16
CUBE HOUSE
Zambia
The Cube House is the eco-sustainable green solution to the increasing solution to the future housing crisis for Africa and beyond. The Cube House creates solutions for the modern day to day housing demands thus enabling us to achieve much with little space.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
26
UNITY FOUNTAIN DOME
NIGERIA
How do we accommodate the need for civil right demonstrations with public social gathering? How do we convert a public green open park (Shagari Park) used only for human right and civic activities with groups likes "Bringbackourgirls" campaign, Jan. 2 2012 match, to also accommodate public space and recreation.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
6229
Otunba Offices
Nigeria
The project, based on an innovative manipulation of the 1916 New York zoning regulation, serves as a flexible, affordable spatial model highly responsive to site constraints. Context, code, program, precedent and natural climate are adopted as generative tools to challenge the prevalent office building typology and enhance its social impact.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
656