Award Entries: Speculative
Cidade Desportiva
Cesar Freitas Arquitectos - Cabo Verde
The “Cidade Desportiva” urban plan, was designed in order to be a model of sustainable urban planning to inspire future Plans and investments for the whole country, aid in the economic growth and improve economic relationships among national and international companies.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
28
The Brown Green Office Building
Interstate Architects Limited - Nigeria
The First LEED Platinum Building in Africa! The overriding goal of the 'Brown GREEN Office Building' is to be THE premier carbon neutral building in Africa. Several elements of the typical office building were redesigned with this goal in mind; resulting in a building with a very low energy footprint.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
46
Fat Wall
Counterspace - South Africa
“The wall is a line on the plan. It is a primordial, inevitable and necessary architectural element in our environment. Its omnipresence makes it easy to be ignored and taken for granted." - Shiuan-Wen Chu
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People's Choice Total Votes:
48
The Territory in-Between
Graduate School of Architecture - University of Johannesburg - Cabo Verde
Territories raise questions of space and ownership, a projection of spatial division; an attempt to place order and control over a landscape. My Project is an exploration and critique of two notions directly related to conventional underpinnings of territory: ‘site’ and ‘state’.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
10
Edificio de Escritórios Bancários "Banco BORY"
Wangelus - Estudos e Projectos, Lda - Angola
O Banco BORY tem como intenção, apresentar ao Distrito do Rangel um icone Arquitectonico, capaz de lançar a Zona para os grandes "chamariz" de Luanda. Inspirado na forma de um telemovel, baseado na Articulação de Figuras Geometricas puras principios do movimento Moderno na corrente Arquitectonica HIGH-TECH
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People's Choice Total Votes:
3000
The Water Cathedral
Makeka Design Lab - South Africa
The Water Cathedral is South Africa’s first interactive experiential pavilion dedicated to celebrating design through, with and for Water. The Cathedral incorporates various exhibition spaces, education platforms and multimedia events to demonstrate the necessity and impact of this critical resource on the Human Body, Trade, Security, Heritage, and the Planet.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
7
Shanty Mega-Structures for Lagos
Olalekan Jeyifous - Nigeria
This project re-imagines Lagos in a near-distant future by juxtaposing sites of much coveted real-estate with colossal vertical settlements rendered in the language of the settlements that exist at the city’s peripheries. It’s a conversation on how slums are viewed as unsightly eyesores to be bull-dozed,leaving their inhabitants completely displaced.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
13
Le Foyer de Charité Chapel
J&A Architects Ltd - Mauritius
The existing Catholic Chapel along the coastline in Souillac, also a retreat center, is about fifty years old. The chapel’s inability to accommodate a rising number of participants, has prompted an extension on first floor, which will also aid in rehabilitating the existing structure, slowly corroded by the sea environment.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
3
Timber House
Earthworld Architects & Interiors - South Africa
Tradition can be either an asset or a hindrance in vernacular architecture. Timber House aims to challenge current thinking concerning construction techniques & materiality in South Africa's regional discourse. Through employing a distinct stereotomic & tectonic relationship, the design creates a variety of spatial qualities based on these principles.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
6