Award Entries: Speculative
Nicol/Main Offices and Public Craft Market
Boogertman and Partners Architects - South Africa
The project reconciles two diverse, almost conflicting programmes, through a layered design approach. The proposal reinstates and celebrates the high cultural value of an existing Public Craft Market while stimulating future economic and business growth in the city with a new Office Building located above
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People's Choice Total Votes:
87
International Conference Center - Douala
Architecte/Cabinet d'Architecture Diwouta - Cameroon
The International Center of Conferences project is in line with the vision of the Urban Planning Plan and the Plan of Land Use Horizon 2025. It projects on a site of 1.70 hectares. Program : 31 175 m² consisting of: 18,175 m²-Buildings,13,000 m²-Underground car parks 6,500 m²-Roads and various networks.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1049
Ethiopian Vernacular
Zoma Contemporary Art Centre - Ethiopia
Ethiopian Vernacular Architecture is a proposal for the first Ethiopian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, to take place in 2018. We intend to show Ethiopia’s heritage of indigenous architecture under a new lens and explore how it can be used and reinterpreted to combat climate change today.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
3113
Teleferico Panoramico Do Fogo
Arch /Urbanism Carlos Hamelberg, Arq/Urb - Cape Verde
O corpo das unidades será feito em estrutura de betão armado e a arquitectura em moldes de estruturas de madeira laminado e aos em vidros duplos (termo acústicos),por motivo de altitude com alta pressão atmosférica e grande amplitude térmica.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2121
Edifício Misto Clínica Health Flat Hotel
Carlos Hamelberg Arq and Urb - Cape Verde
Inspirado em elementos Oceânicos Marítimos tendo em conta a nossa insularidade...baleia, tubarão e orcas são a fonte de inspiração.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1511
Centre Artisanal à Baguida
Architecte - Togo
Notre projet veut promouvoir la diversité artistique que regorge le Togo. Il contribue au développement touristique, à la promotion et à la commercialisation des créations des artisans togolais. Il est conçu grâce aux connaissances de constructions et ressources locales disponibles (matériaux, environnement et ressources humaines).
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1
Tartaruga Village - Leisure Center
Carlos Hamelberg Arq & Urb - Cabo Verde
O Pavilhão Multi Uso denominado Arena,inspirado em uma espécie em extinção _Tartaruga, está perspectivado, em topogenia, através da estilização da Tartaruga Coretta, uma das cinco espécies que se encontram na ecologia cabo-verdiana e que torna Cabo Verde um dos maiores habitats mundiais desse batráquio em risco de extinção.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1151
AU - Human Right Memorial
Leulseged Tibebu - Ethiopia
Approaching the memorial site, one is immediately encountered with a huge red inclined wall symbolizing the typically self-appointed dictators of the region who were oppressive, totalitarian and narcissistic; forcing the people of their country through an inconceivable horror and devastation.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
25
Inyanga Bridge Housing
Greg Gordge - South Africa
Existing urban fabrics within all cities reveal large amounts of ‘lost’ space; in-between and discarded spaces which offer great opportunities from both a densification and rehabilitation perspective. 'InyangaBridge Housing' provides an annex of certain ‘missing’ requirements to an existing urban context whilst providing a convalescent quality to the localised condition.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
90