Award Entries
S João dos Cavaleiros Inn
Maurício dos Santos Arquitectos - Cabo Verde
The project of the S. João dos Cavaleiros Inn, was developed in basaltic stone wall to house the negative-built spaces and the cover transformed into a dry tropical garden. Minimizing the presence of the building before the neighborhood and not interfering with the visual relation whith the sea.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1071
Sapiens Institute
Costalopes - Angola
The Sapiens Building answers its program and a challenging situation. Its polyhedral abstraction guarantees formal consistency and the galleries dramatize light and shadow, allowing the views, delivering an elegant vibration and denouncing the rationalization of the educational program. It is intense in its presence and generous in its public delivery.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
4175
Modern Architecture in Africa : Angola and Mozambique
Técnico - University of Lisbon-Portugal
Book published under the scope of the research project: “EWV_Exchanging Worlds Visions: modern architecture in Lusophone Africa (1943-1974) looking through Brazilian experience established since the 1930s”, funded by FCT (PTDC/AUR-AQUI/103229/2008) and scientifically coordinated by Prof. Ana Tostões (Chair of Docomomo International, Full Professor at Técnico – Lisbon University).
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People's Choice Total Votes:
5
Migrant Housing Unit
Architecture for a Change - South Africa
Currently the approach towards the provision of housing at the mines is a conventional one (formal built housing). The problem is that 90% of the workers are migrant. Once the mine close, then the people re-locate to their place of origin. We therefore developed a mobile property.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
15
The Mauritius Commercial Bank building
Jean-Francois Koenig Architect - Mauritius
The Mauritius Commercial Bank Building is important to World Architecture as being the first to be an ellipse in section and elevation. It is also the first building to have a BREEAM certificate in the southern hemisphere, placing Africa ahead of the South American and Australasian continents.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
9
Hedzranawe Clinic - A Wellbeing Place For Community
Hermann Kamte & Associates - Togo
Hedzranawe Clinic is a proposal of Healthcare in Lome that won the 1st Prize in Workshop organised by EAMAU. The Project is a safe environment for patients, medical team, visitor and workers. Relaxation, well-being and social gathering are highlights for the community.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1
Patio Building
Social Housing, Idaio - Angola
The concept of Patio Building is a necessity of response for a High Density Social Housing, from an analysis and interpretation of Luanda Slums Habitat, characterized by strong social life outside the house, in courtyards and alleyways, generating important neighborhood relationship as an extended family.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
126
Voi Community Library
University of Nairobi - Kenya
The library as an idea is conceptualized as a living room for the community where people meet and learn from each other, relax and also get connected to the world by ease access of information. It provides diverse spaces where people are able to network, chat and even have coffee.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2983
Bamboo House
Majoroh Partnership - Nigeria
Bamboo House Completed : 2012 Location : Illashe, Lagos. Our vision for this beach house was rooted in its context and the experimentation of locally sourced materials, to design a modern building that would be reflective of our culture, acknowledges modernity, contemporary design,and belongs to the locality.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
306