Award Entries
Mt. Kenya Ecolodge
University of Nairobi - Kenya
Mt. Kenya is the second highest Mountain in Africa, it is located within Mt.Kenya National Park which is a world heritage site that boasts of endemic flora species, fauna (elephants mountain leopards etc). These attributes make it a prime attraction to local and foreign tourists.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
4835
ANRS Parliament Hall, Council Office and Nile Convention Center
Abba Architects PLC - Ethiopia
The project is built on the artificially built Island on the Bank of the Blue Nile river in Baherdar. It comprises: A regional Parliament hall, a 12 Story council office, a Convention center with 11 meeting halls ranging from 50 seats to 2000 seats capacity.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
41
Visual Assessment as a Research Tool for Solving Spatial Problems in Khutsong Section Informal Settlement
University of Pretoria-SA
A visual research methodology was applied to investigate in-situ informal settlements 'retrofitting' that is user-specific, site-specific, micro-scale, affordable, smart, light and scalable infrastructures that enable, support and strengthen the growth of existing micro-scale socio-economic activities: creating/cultivating an enabling architecture/platform for already occurring ‘events’ and ‘everyday’ rituals in the informal settlement.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
20
Cave Manifesto
Cave Ltd-Kenya
The Cave as a geological structure and space is ingrained in our prehistoric consciousness, it influences the way we perceive and define the world around us. Humanity’s early experience of inside and outside, the nave, the light well, shafts, chambers, echoes, among many other architectural experiences and features can be directly connected to our ancestor’s encounter with caves and associated networks across the ages.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
30
The Territory in-Between
Graduate School of Architecture - University of Johannesburg - Cabo Verde
The project explores the interplay between physical space and the experiences of stages of migration. It takes on the form of a pit-stop for migrants. The project questions and highlights laws of entry and exit and manipulates rules from the conventional harbor or airport, as a critique on current border-policing.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
0
Floating Zebra
Cave Ltd - Kenya
The Floating Zebra, coined by Cave is the beginning of a broader project to improve public space in Dandoraphase 2 and beyond. The plans include the improvement of a vast neglected power riparian leave way to create a public park that links abandoned industrial sheds to the south, with the infamous Dandora dump site to the north; one of the largest in Africa, synonymous with crime and drug cartels that the community wants to transform.The idea itself was spawned by two boys in the community who drew a pergola like gateway over Justen street, which Cave interpreted as a floating zebra crossing that casts a moving shadow of stripes on the street. It is astructure that is part public art, part reconstructed street safety utility, signaling the community’s drive to determine what public space means to them.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
292
Nigeria Elevation Tower
FMAJ Associates - Nigeria
The NIGERIA ELEVATION TOWER is a building with a striking helical shape, turning 180 degrees over the course of its height. Each floor is identical in plan, but is set 2.4 degrees clockwise from the floor below, giving the tower a distinctive form by way of an innovative, efficient, repeatable structure.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
26
Architecture that Educates
The American International School of Mozambique - Mozambique
Architecture that EDUCATES
The American International School of Mozambique in Maputo.
HEALTHY LEARNINGS
Importance of school environments –Design to have a direct impact and correlation with students learning potential and results.
Layout of the facilities, adding state of the art, sustainable healthy learning facilities, re-organised into separate mini-campuses.
The American International School of Mozambique in Maputo.
HEALTHY LEARNINGS
Importance of school environments –Design to have a direct impact and correlation with students learning potential and results.
Layout of the facilities, adding state of the art, sustainable healthy learning facilities, re-organised into separate mini-campuses.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
35
The Anthropocene Museum
Cave Ltd - Kenya
As part of our ongoing research into Caves, we have published a short film that charts a survey of the Mbai Caves network, in Paradise Lost, Nairobi, Kenya.Through a simple survey of an innocuous cave in Africa, we discuss architecture from a geological, political and cultural standpoint. Our"wild" proposition is to begin curating from here the vast network of evidence or in fact artifact sites of humanity's impact on this planet. Cultural events in the arts would be integrated to bring greater awareness to the age we live in.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
38