African Architecture and Design

According to their website ArchiAfrika organisation aims to achieve the following in the feild of African Architecture: "... To collec...

This institute "Ahmed Bbaba Center for Documentation and Research Tombouctou" created in the 70's. It was established to be a ...

1000 innovations writes about a new patent being developed to reduce the cost and at the same time maintain the reliability of the concrete...

The recently opened Suvarnabhumi International airport Thailand and the Madrid Barajas Terminal 4 International Airport in Spain are some o...

The mud brick building even as rudimentary as it looks,is probably one of the most affordable and sustainable methods of construction. The ...

According to their website the Ashden Awards for Sustainable energy "...rewards and promotes excellent local sustainable energy solut...

One of the La Voute Nubienne Organisation's main objective is to educate and promote the traditional technology of constructing low cos...

In an article featured in the Inhabitat, the blog writes about a Thailands first Bio Solar House. Sustainability is wholly integrated with ...

Z+Blog writes about the Eastgate Building in Harare Zimbabwe that is cooled and ventilated entirely by natural ventilation based on biometr...

With soaring global temperatures,bitumen based roads seem not to be as durable because of their low melting points, although concrete is a b...

Their website writes ".... Slee architecture and interiors is a multi-disciplined architecture and interior design practice operating ...

With the cost of roofing materials like terracotta tiles, aluminum roofing sheets and corrugated galvanized metal sheet getting beyond the r...

Architect Africa is a directory of practicing architects in the Republic of South Africa.The site also covers other intesting stuff like fr...

The African Heritage House website says"....The African Heritage House overlooking the Nairobi National Park is described by the pres...

With a staff strength of about 35 professionals and a head office located in Addis Ababa, National Consultants has established itself as o...

AFRICAST says"...Scientists in South Africa are digitizing Africa's rich cultural heritage sites to provide a virtual tour to thos...

If the production of cement is one of the highest carbon dioxide emitters in the world today, how can we reform the way we build in order to...

They describe themselves as a group of developers, architects, contractors, suppliers, managers, economists that have integrated to form a t...

Kelly Hart of Green Home Building writes that "...As “consumers” we are frequently confronted with life style decisions that can impa...

When I was younger I noticed my grandparents in the village got all their fresh water from a massive underground rainwater collection tank ...