African Architecture and Design

Their Website says "...Ultimately, Design Africa is a portal, your portal, to designers with uncommon vision, to potential partners, t...

Anyone that has been in a Traditional African buildings would notice that they are always cooler inside even when it is very hot outside. W...

We can build skyscrapers that not only have low- carbon footprints but also are sustainable. The Skyscraper Museum and The New York Academ...

Vikki Miller of Building writes about the "Walled City of Masdar" in Abu Dhabi which will be one the world's first zero-carbo...

According to their website "... ah'bé integrates planning and design, approaching projects with a contextual perspective, and inve...

Metaefficient writes about "...The facade of this Manchester skyscraper (owned by CIS, an insurance company) was original covered with...

The recently opened Tinapa business resort was designed by this interesting Architectural firm based in South Africa. According to their web...

The birsel + seck Company was started by Ayse Birsel and Bibi Seck who are both product designers. "...Their award-winning designs spa...

Timbuktuchronicles writes about the MTS property "..An integrated Real Estate company that offers: -Property Development & Sales....

I attended the lecture by Marks Barfield Architects , The Quietrevolution , and Price & Myers at the building centre about the Beacon w...

Prism Designs Africa is an indigenous architectural design firm that specialises mainly in residential, institutional and commercial buildi...

Voiceofthedesert website features an article by Keith Smith that has shows the intricate construction steps of a Woodless mud building in G...

Worldarchitecturenews writes about a new design of a residential tower proposed for development in Singapore.According to the World Archite...

The blog Liberia Stories reports about a sustainable building being built by Obadiah Gondolo out of stick and mud. The articale says "...

Open Architecture Network is an organisation started by Cameron Sinclair with the aim "....to generate design opportunities that will...

Their company is one of the top Property Development firms, that Design & Build commercial as well as private projects in Nigeria. Their...

The RIBA website writes about how "... Massimiliano Fuksas Architects has won the international design competition to design the first...

Those of us that have been in a mud or adobe built building on a hot day are sure to notice how cool (temperature) they are compared to a co...

Eco-Africa is an environmentally friendly company that uses indigenous plants and African artisans to produce a diverse range of craft pape...

The chimney effect (stack effect) created by a Solar chimney tower of about 1000m high according to the Environ Mission website would be a...