• Magazine
  • Awards
  • Jobs
  • Events Guide
  • Showroom
  • School Shows
  • Courses

Follow:

  • Architecture
  • Interiors
  • Design
  • Lookbooks
  • Talks
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
  • Opinion
  • Comments
  • News
  • Interviews
  • Highlights
  • About
  • Newsletters
  • Preferences
  • Submit a story
  • Advertise
  • Privacy notice
  • Contact

Dezeen Magazine dezeen-logo dezeen-logo

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. ...
  7. Older page »

Next page

clear

Follow:

  • Talks
  • Videos
  • Opinion
  • Comments
  • Subscribe
  • Architecture
  • Interiors
  • Design
  • Lookbooks
  • Magazine
  • Awards
  • Jobs
  • Events Guide
  • Showroom
  • School Shows
  • Courses

Search results:

Read more:

Refine your search:

Cats

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. ...
  7. Older page »

Africa

  • Localworks builds irregularly shaped classrooms with earthbags for school in Uganda

    Design and build studio Localworks has created the Mustardseed Junior School in Uganda with organically shaped classrooms built from natural and locally sourced materials. More

    Amy Peacock | 13 November 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Titi Ogufere spotlights five Nigerian designers from Made by Design series

    Netflix series Made by Design celebrates the work of 13 architects and designers who live and work in Nigeria. The show's co-producer Titi Ogufere picks five architects and designers featured in the TV show for Dezeen that she believes deserve greater recognition. More

    Alice Finney | 27 January 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Telfar designs unisex uniforms for Liberian Olympic team

    New York-based fashion brand Telfar has designed a collection of unisex uniforms for the Liberian team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. More

    Alice Finney | 27 July 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Termite mounds inform Kéré Architecture's design of Kenyan education campus

    Terracotta-hued towers that reference termite mounds distinguish the Startup Lions Campus, which Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré's studio has completed in Kenya. More

    Lizzie Crook | 30 June 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Kéré Architecture uses local clay to construct Burkina Institute of Technology

    Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré's studio has built a university in Burkina Faso, western Africa, which has walls made with locally sourced clay and screens of eucalyptus wood. More

    Lizzie Crook | 29 June 2021 | Leave a comment
  • SHoP Architects reveals Botswana Innovation Hub nearing completion in Gaborone

    US studio SHoP Architects and local studio Nutall Smith have released a set of photos showing their innovation hub and HIV research laboratory almost complete in Gaborone, Botswana. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 21 July 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Eight products by African designers selected by Africa by Design

    Africa by Design is a platform that promotes designers from sub-Saharan Africa. Founder Chrissa Amuah spoke to Dezeen about the programme in a live interview earlier this month and here presents a selection of products from the stable. More

    Marcus Fairs | 22 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Marc Thorpe designs Dakar Houses for Moroso furniture makers in Senegal

    New York architect Marc Thorpe has developed a prototype house made from earth bricks, to house the makers of Moroso's M'Afrique furniture collection. More

    Amy Frearson | 17 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Paul Cocksedge to install CLT bridge over Cape Town river

    British designer Paul Cocksedge has unveiled plans to build a cross-laminated timber bridge across the Liesbeek River in Cape Town. More

    Amy Frearson | 16 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • AMO and Volkswagen propose electric tractor design for sub-Saharan Africa

    Rem Koolhaas's research organisation AMO has partnered with car manufacturer Volkswagen to develop an electric tractor based on the companies' "shared interest in the countryside". More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 2 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Akon finalises deal to create his own cryptocurrency city in Senegal

    Senegalese-American singer Akon says he has signed an agreement with the government of Senegal to build a city with a cryptocurrency-based economy named Akon City. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 17 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Melilla's historic market converted into latticed education centre

    Ángel Verdasco Arquitectos used a lattice of aluminium beams to cover the ceramic tiled facade of an education centre built over an abandoned market in Melilla. More

    Jon Astbury | 6 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Solar panels form canopy over surgical facility in Uganda

    The Mount Sinai Kyabirwa Surgical Facility in Uganda by Kliment Halsband Architects is a self-sustaining facility topped with solar panels. More

    India Block | 2 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Atelier Masomi designs raw-earth-brick cultural centre in Niger

    Atelier Masomi has designed a cluster of five raw-earth buildings that will become the Niamey Cultural Center in the capital of Niger. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 25 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • "We want African design to be functional" says Design Week Lagos founder

    Design has not been valued in Africa for decades, says Nigerian interior designer Titi Ogufere, who has launched a design week in Lagos in a bid to change that. More

    Amy Frearson | 8 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Swedish architects create self-sustaining children's centre in Tanzania

    Swedish studios Asante Architecture & Design and Lönnqvist & Vanamo Architects have collaborated with local workers to create a self-sufficient orphanage in Kingori, Tanzania. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 30 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Colourful metal canopies shade a market in rural Niger by Atelier Masomi

    Architecture studio Atelier Masomi has built a market in Dandaji, Niger, using colourful recycled-metal canopies to attract vendors and help grow the local economy. More

    Olivia Ladanyi | 23 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Urko Sanchez Architects builds miniature walled city for orphans

    Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. More

    Jon Astbury | 20 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Studio Libeskind's Ngaren museum to track human evolution in Kenyan landscape

    Daniel Libeskind's New York architecture firm has revealed plans to build a museum in Kenya's Rift Valley, comprising tapered and pointed structures that resemble stalagmites. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 13 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Stacked straw bales form walls for conceptual school in Malawi by Nudes

    Indian architecture office Nudes has developed a concept for a secondary school in Malawi, with a modular wooden structure and curved walls made from straw bales. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 7 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. ...
  7. Older page »

More Africa stories

Saudi Arabia unveils giant cube-shaped supertall skyscraper for downtown Riyadh

Giant cube-shaped supertall skyscraper in Riyadh

Pharrell Williams appointed creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton

Humanrace by Pharrell Williams

Everything you need to know about Saudi mega-project Neom

The Line in Saudi Arabia

UK politician attacks 15-minute city concept in parliament

Nick Fletcher
Subscribe
Subscribe

Subscribe to
our newsletters

Loading

We will only use your email address to send you the newsletters you have requested. We will never give your details to anyone else without your consent. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email, or by emailing us at [email protected].

For more details, please see our privacy notice.

Thank you!

You will shortly receive a welcome email so please check your inbox.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of every newsletter.











Architektura draws on "children's spontaneity" for Větrník Kindergarten in Czech Republic

Exterior of Větrník Kindergarten in Czech Republic by Architektura

Ten buildings that became embroiled in legal battles

Exterior of the Mole House by Adjaye Associates

Popular jobs

Featured jobs

Car lift allows residents to drive into all apartments in Bentley's Miami Beach skyscraper

Bentley Resiences

"Earthquakes don't kill people, bad buildings do"

Damage after the Turkey earthquake

Dezeen Events Guide

Dezeen Jobs

Highlights

  • View of Jeddah Central Museum by Heatherwick

    Architecture


    Heatherwick Saudi museum

    Architecture


    Heatherwick Saudi museum

  • Ludwig Godefroy brutalist home

    Architecture


    Brutalist cube-shaped home

    Architecture


    Brutalist cube-shaped home

  • Timeless Beacon by FangFang

    Architecture


    Ma Yansong installation

    Architecture


    Ma Yansong installation

  • Highgate Road facade of The Arches townhouses by The DHaus Company

    Architecture


    Arched London townhouses

    Architecture


    Arched London townhouses

  • Blue, Green and pink steel structures along a curved pathway with school children playing

    Architecture


    Colourful preschool

    Architecture


    Colourful preschool

  • Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban

    Timber Revolution


    Timber-skeleton building

    Timber Revolution


    Timber-skeleton building

  • 10K House by Takk

    Interiors


    Energy-saving Barcelona flat

    Interiors


    Energy-saving Barcelona flat

  • Concrete columns, Ceramic Art Avenue Taoxichuan by David Chipperfield Architects

    Architecture


    Chipperfield's work "bland"

    Architecture


    Chipperfield's work "bland"

  • A pavilion by Shahed Saleem

    Pavilions


    Mosque pavilion

    Pavilions


    Mosque pavilion

  • Exterior of a one-storey open-plan home with glazed walls overlooking the sea

    Architecture


    Chilean beach house

    Architecture


    Chilean beach house

  • Black and white photo of a brutalist residential and commercial building complex with blocks aligned at different angles

    Architecture


    Parisian brutalist buildings

    Architecture


    Parisian brutalist buildings

  • The interior of a bedroom in Blueberry Nights

    Interiors


    Tbilisi hotel

    Interiors


    Tbilisi hotel

  • Industrialised Building system Prototype

    Architecture


    Modular building system

    Architecture


    Modular building system

  • Balbek Bureau creates Ukrainian "home away from home" in Antarctica

    Architecture


    Ukrainian house in Antarctica

    Architecture


    Ukrainian house in Antarctica

  • Denim vanity by Harry Nuriev at Carpenters Workshop Gallery

    Design


    Denim furniture

    Design


    Denim furniture

  • Submit a story
  • Advertise
  • Privacy notice
  • Contact
  • Talks
  • Videos
  • Opinion
  • Comments
  • Subscribe
  • Architecture
  • Interiors
  • Design
  • Magazine
  • Awards
  • Jobs
  • Events Guide
  • Showroom
  • School Shows
  • Courses

Please share your location to continue.

Check our help guide for more info.

share your location