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Close out the year with these architecture- and design-focused exhibitions

Rendering of Africatown Museum Exterior View
Cultural Infrastructure

The Africatown International Design Idea Competition rewrites the playbook for architects engaging with descendant communities in Mobile, Alabama

Pregaming

Looking forward to next week’s Venice Architecture Biennale amid frustration shared by curator Lesley Lokko

Long-lost

Steven Ehrlich reconnects with a housing project he designed in Morocco fifty years ago; thought to be unbuilt, it was actually realized

exterior of a start up space
Adventurous Capital

MASS Design Group adapts a former school in Rwanda into an entrepreneurial hub for a Swedish nonprofit

green and yellow canopy
On the Mend

Tosin Oshinowo rebuilds a settlement for a community displaced by Boko Haram

a building as seen from across a body of water
Someplace Old, Someone New

Building in Africa with Pritzker Prize winner Francis Kéré

roberto cicutto with lesley loko
Theme Reveal

The Lesley Lokko–curated 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale will envision Africa as The Laboratory of the Future

aerial rendering of a forthcoming museum in senegal
A Place of Celebration

Mariam Issoufou Kamara to design upcoming museum and cultural center in Senegal

portrait of Francis Kéré
Building A Foundation

Francis Kéré is the 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate

A chair carved from wood at design week lagos
Design Or Revolution

The third edition of Design Week Lagos showcases the best in contemporary African design

Base of domino tower sitting in the ocean
Domino Effect

Zanzibar’s Domino Tower could be Africa’s second tallest and rise on a manmade island

aerial view of a research institute campus
Block Party

Adjaye Associates reveals design for Africa Institute campus in Sharjah, UAE

aerial shot of the oval shaped thatched roof and surrounding two smaller buildings
Facade that Cools

The passive house Fass School employs local materials for an active facade

Rendering of the new National Assembly of Benin, showing a square volume atop columns
Planting The Seed

Kéré Architecture reveals a swooping new parliament hall for the Republic of Benin

A rendering of Akon City, full of undulating glass buildings
Akontroversy in Paradise

Akon moves ahead with crypto city in Senegal despite skepticism

illustration of a housing community in africa built from plastic
Solving Problems with Problems

Norwegian startup Othalo eyes plastic waste recycling to solve the housing crisis

Rendering of a concrete plaza with scalloped towers
Erupting Earth

Adjaye Associates designs a stark martyrs memorial for Niger’s capital

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