Award Entries
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
Forest Village Affordable Housing Development
ACG Architects & Development Planner - South Africa
The concept for the Forest Village Housing Development is based on the common typological narrative of place-making, brought home to ‘local neighbourhoods, my court, our street’. The idea is to create a diverse range of safe recreational spaces overlooked by the community.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
336
Minazi Social Housing
University of Rwanda, College of Science and Technology - Rwanda
Architecture that saves.. Architecture is not only an art to appreciate, but also a science to solve problems. From settlement, house to a domestic furniture. this project aims to be a prototype of design suiting sloped site, in turns it explores the way to use traditional Technics creating modern lifestyle
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1615
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
UP UP – Stories of Johannesburg’s Highrises
Nele Dechmann, Fabian Jaggi, Katrin Murbach and Nicola Ruffo-Switzerland
UP UP – Stories of Johannesburg’s Highrises presents a selection of buildings in Johannesburg. Witnesses to profound shifts in the political history, the skyscrapers are documented firstly through historical facts, floor plans, archival records and contemporary photographs of their formal architecture and secondly, through reportage, interviews and essays.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
18
Matri-Archi(tecture)
Khensani de Klerk-SA
Matri-Archi is a blog space where the work and writings of multiple and marginalized identity groups are given space to flourish. Matri-Archi is here to challenge universal epistemologies of architecture...to uncover dormant rich “other” ways of knowing the built environment. Matri-Archi speaks about the record of Intersectional Space.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
20