Why enter the Africa Architecture Awards 2017?
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Recognition and reward
One grand Prix winner will receive the cash prize of $10 000 (USD). In addition, four trophy winners, one per entry category, will be chosen. All 20 short-listed entries will be invited to attend the awards ceremony.
It’s free and anyone can enter
There is no cost to enter the awards and multiple entries are allowed.Projects may also be entered into more than one entry category.
Ongoing promotion
All entries are showcased online and are eligible for online votes in the People's Choice Awards.
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Latest Award Entries
I·Cat Eco-Factory
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:
8
Fracture | Collaborative Incubator
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:
5
ARBA MINCH CITY MALL
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:
276
Dealing With Change in Fixity and Fixity in Change
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:
0
Fruitycity - Not Just Another Disneyland
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:
1
Dreamlines of Africa
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:
1
Showcase
The showcase is a space in which different African Regional Architectural Associations and Institutions award winners are recognised and celebrated. Projects displayed here are not automatically entered into the Africa Architecture Awards 2017. All architects included in the showcase are invited to register and enter before the cut-off date of the 30th of June 2017.