West African Architecture

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Afi Ekong - founder of the first private art gallery in Nigeria, The Bronze Gallery.

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African university graduates create energy-efficient home inspired by traditional architecture

A portable, energy-efficient home that was originally built for a competition may be available on the market soon in Africa.

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i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

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Bathroom design by Utkan Gunerkan

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i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

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This Valentine’s Day,

the home of Shakespeare’s Juliet is available for one night only on Airbnb

© airbnb

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A portrait of a woodabe woman. Niger. ©Mariam S. Abdullah

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Children’s book started years ago to promote nsibidi, finally finished. Animal discovery in the wild in Igbo. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZG67B5S

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An inventor from Togo in West Africa, Kodjo Afate Gnikou, has made a 3D printer using parts from broken scanners, computers, printers and other e-waste. The fully functional printer cost $100, a fraction of the cost of others currently on the market, and saves environmentally damaging waste from reaching landfill sites. Read more and support the project here.

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Some ‘upscale’ traditional architectural styles (all earth) of old from the Lower Guinea area of western Africa. Captions added.

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This has been made into an extended Twitter thread with some more examples, https://twitter.com/ukpuru/status/943775234330591232

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Senegal: Alioune Diop University wins the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture

The five winners of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture who will share US$ 1 million between them includes Alioune Diop University, Bambey, Senegal. The Award is given to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture.

The other 4 recipients of this year’s award are:

Revitalisation of Muharraq in Bahrain which highlights the World Heritage site’s pearling history

Arcadia Education Project, in South Kanarchor, Bangladesh is a modular structure that takes a novel approach to a riverine site that is often flooded for five months every year

Palestinian Museum, in Birzeit, which crowns a terraced hill overlooking the Mediterranean and is the recipient of the LEED Gold certification because of its sustainable construction

Public Spaces Development Programme, in the Republic of Tatarstan, a programme that, to date, has improved 328 public spaces all over Tatarstan