Award Entries
Cidade Desportiva
Cesar Freitas Arquitectos - Cabo Verde
The “Cidade Desportiva” urban plan, was designed in order to be a model of sustainable urban planning to inspire future Plans and investments for the whole country, aid in the economic growth and improve economic relationships among national and international companies.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
28
The Brown Green Office Building
Interstate Architects Limited - Nigeria
The First LEED Platinum Building in Africa! The overriding goal of the 'Brown GREEN Office Building' is to be THE premier carbon neutral building in Africa. Several elements of the typical office building were redesigned with this goal in mind; resulting in a building with a very low energy footprint.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
46
GE Africa Innovation Centre
Paragon Architects South Africa - South Africa
The goal was to create a mixed-use, flexible, functional, robust and sustainable environment highlighting the key principles of GE, industrial innovation and African collaboration. As such the Fit-out through the use of the Customer Experience centre, healthcare experience, and training and development centre showcases and teaches users about GE’S technology.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
3
Fat Wall
Counterspace - South Africa
“The wall is a line on the plan. It is a primordial, inevitable and necessary architectural element in our environment. Its omnipresence makes it easy to be ignored and taken for granted." - Shiuan-Wen Chu
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People's Choice Total Votes:
48
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
V&A Waterfront Holdings (Pty) Ltd - South Africa
The Grain Silo Complex will house a not-for-profit public institution, Zeitz MOCCA, which will commemorate humanity and its history while providing a metaphor for remembering the contemporary moment. The museum will attract people from around the world and is to open its doors in September 2017.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
9
Otto Cottage
Simply Sustainable - Botswana
Integrated sustainable design. Simple geometric spaces with massive rammed earth walls, evaporative cooling, passive ventilation, natural sewerage system, off grid electricity, water independant. Deriving energy from the sun, water from the river, humanity from its materials and open vista, and providing nutrients to the environment by bio processing its wastes.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
6
The Territory in-Between
Graduate School of Architecture - University of Johannesburg - Cabo Verde
Territories raise questions of space and ownership, a projection of spatial division; an attempt to place order and control over a landscape. My Project is an exploration and critique of two notions directly related to conventional underpinnings of territory: ‘site’ and ‘state’.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
10
HoAREC
Abba Architects PLC, Synergy International - Ethiopia
HoAREC is one of the three main buildings that was designed as part of the Gullele Botanic Garden international design Competition.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
6
Edificio de Escritórios Bancários "Banco BORY"
Wangelus - Estudos e Projectos, Lda - Angola
O Banco BORY tem como intenção, apresentar ao Distrito do Rangel um icone Arquitectonico, capaz de lançar a Zona para os grandes "chamariz" de Luanda. Inspirado na forma de um telemovel, baseado na Articulação de Figuras Geometricas puras principios do movimento Moderno na corrente Arquitectonica HIGH-TECH
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People's Choice Total Votes:
3000