We are entering a new phase in the history of African architecture. A period defined by African architects who are moved by cultural nuances and societal needs...
By Chris Malan 9 Jan 2020
Construction has begun on the new Foster + Partners-designed Cairo hospital, featuring soft and warm colours and shell-like roofs, located within a lush, verdant landscape...
15 Sep 2020
Covered in glass, the former IMB Plaza building in Lagos stood as an example of the influence of international design styles on the Nigerian commercial capital's architecture...
Dr Anthony Ogbuokiri and Dr Emmanuel Manu 14 Sep 2020
BellTowers winning design addresses challenges often found in developing countries by using smart open-source planning to design 'affordable communities' with sustainable clean water resources...
4 Sep 2020
The 40,000m2 Pullman Accra Airport City Hotel & Serviced Apartments in Ghana is Paragon Architects' largest design project to date and is currently under construction in Accra...
21 Aug 2020
Recognising the excellence of architectural practices in Morocco, the Archimedia Group has launched the Young Moroccan Architecture Awards (YMAA)...
12 Aug 2020
Urban investments across the African continent are at an all-time high. Yet the nature of these investments differs starkly across cities....
Biruk Terrefe 24 Jun 2020
When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion...
Silvio Carta 19 Jun 2020
The enormous death toll in New York City, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, led New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, to write...
Colin McFarlane 8 Jun 2020
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, our homes have been serving as makeshift workplaces, schools, gyms and pubs...
Tara Hipwood 27 May 2020
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has launched a new task force to inform public officials, healthcare facility owners and architects on adapting buildings into temporary healthcare facilities...
3 Apr 2020
London-based architecture firm De-Urban Design Studio has launched a new ideas competition called 'De-Urbanized Epidemics: Re-Design of the Concept of Health in Relation to the Built Environment'...
25 Mar 2020
Architecture has lost a great visionary. Budapest-born French architect Yona Friedman died at age 96 on 20 February.
Theodora Vardouli 6 Mar 2020
Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent Alphabet, has released its new digital study for mass timber buildings that could reach 35 storeys in cities...
27 Feb 2020
Architect Sir David Adjaye OBE and artist Cai Guo-Qiang have been selected as recipients of the 2020 Isamu Noguchi Award by The Noguchi Museum...
21 Feb 2020
