Award Entries
University of Western Cape, Chemical Sciences & Geology Building
ACG Architects & Development Planners - South Africa
The design of the new building for the Chemical Sciences Department and Geology Department was to provide teaching and tutorial facilities for students, as well as practical teaching laboratories, reflecting the language used in the neighboring Life Science Building.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
886
Hostels for Hop Tanzania
Flint Stone Engineering - Tanzania
Hostels for hop completion, Tanzania was organized to find ways of constructing a hostel for cancer patent women who come from the rural parts of Tanzania to Dar Es Selaam for a treatment. This 1st prize winner proposal is designed base on the concept of nursing each other.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
470
I·Cat Eco-Factory
Earthworld Architects & Interiors - South Africa
For too long, the associations with industry have been that of dusty, dark, factories. I·CAT’s Eco-Factory aims to change that. The focus in this typology needs to be as humancentric as it does process driven. The goal should be to design buildings for people undertaking processes, not the process itself.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
21
Fracture Collaborative Incubator
Graduate School of Architecture - University of Johannesburg - South Africa
Faced with the growing number of graduate youth unemployment in South Africa and the negative exponential effect it has on the economy a mutualistic space needed to be developed to allow graduated a gateway into the marketplace.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
23
Arba Minch City Mall
Arba Minch University - Ethiopia
The mall in this case is a public space set aside for the public to walk. It is a major street used by the public for shopping and recreational activities. It is specifically designed for the downtown commercial and residential area of Sikela in Arba Minch, Ethiopia.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
7170
Dealing With Change in Fixity and Fixity in Change
Sinkneh Eshetu-Ethiopia
Landscape architects deal with open complex system, some elements and features of which relatively fixed; others in constant flux. They need to systematically deal with these natural and cultural fixities and changes to come up with aesthetically, culturally, and ecologically sound designs. This book proposes a framework to do that.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1
Fruitycity - Not Just Another Disneyland
Fruitycity Trading PLC - Ethiopia
Shaping one’s environment is a necessity of life urbanization often denies children. Fruitycity, an imaginary children’s city, is designed to bring nature and building to children’s lives and education by engaging them in building this model, virtual, and actual city thereby enhancing their capacity to learn, create, care, and survive.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
6
Dreamlines of Africa
Sinkneh Eshetu-Ethiopia
Inspired by Dream/Songlines of Native Australians, I am trying to read cultural landscapes and draw similar ‘Dreamlines’ with stories. My latest novel, ‘Catch Your Thunder: Rendezvous with the End,’ starts the ambitious project of ‘landscape-designing’ the continent of Africa to reconnecting communities and help preserve and promote our common heritages.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2
New Sight Eye Hospital
Boogertman and Partners Architects in Association with Geyser Hahn Architects - Republic of Congo
The New Sight Eye Hospital is a pioneer in the Republic of Congo, delivering non-profit eye services to one of the most impoverished areas. The hospital is focused on phenomenological principles, addressing sensory experience in an environment that not only heals, but celebrates the wonderful gift of sight.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
15