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
House Inanda
South Africa
Nestled in the heart of Sandton, the design was driven by the client’s desire to create a space that was reflective of the evolution of their relationship, an amalgamation of diverse interests and passions. The layout consists of three barns placed rhythmically over the site celebrating the existing established trees.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
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Forest Village Affordable Housing Development
South Africa
The concept for the Forest Village Housing Development is based on the common typological narrative of place-making, brought home to ‘local neighbourhoods, my court, our street’. The idea is to create a diverse range of safe recreational spaces overlooked by the community.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
4
Minazi social housing
Rwanda
Architecture that saves.. Architecture is not only an art to appreciate, but also a science to solve problems. From settlement, house to a domestic furniture. this project aims to be a prototype of design suiting sloped site, in turns it explores the way to use traditional Technics creating modern lifestyle
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People's Choice Total Votes:
9
Pink Box
Angola
The "PINK BOX" Exhibition is an Architecture installation. The main objective is to draw attention to one problem in Luanda, the urban waste. Civic awareness is oriented towards the improbable relationship between trash and beauty, awakening the citizen's eye to "garbage that is not garbage" and "trash can be beautiful".
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People's Choice Total Votes:
31
UP UP – Stories of Johannesburg’s Highrises
UP UP – Stories of Johannesburg’s Highrises presents a selection of buildings in Johannesburg. Witnesses to profound shifts in the political history, the skyscrapers are documented firstly through historical facts, floor plans, archival records and contemporary photographs of their formal architecture and secondly, through reportage, interviews and essays.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
6
Matri-Archi(tecture)
Matri-Archi is a blog space where the work and writings of multiple and marginalized identity groups are given space to flourish. Matri-Archi is here to challenge universal epistemologies of architecture...to uncover dormant rich “other” ways of knowing the built environment. Matri-Archi speaks about the record of Intersectional Space.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
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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.