Gola Rainforest – Sierra Leone Buildings
The Gola Rainforest in Sierra Leone is home to 100,000 people who still live in extreme poverty 8 years after the brutal civil war ended, but change is beginning to happen.
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The Gola Rainforest in Sierra Leone is home to 100,000 people who still live in extreme poverty 8 years after the brutal civil war ended, but change is beginning to happen.
The first centre, located outside of Cape Town, South Africa, was completed in December 2009. Centres in Nairobi, Namibia and Mali are currently under construction and aim to be completed around the time of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
In this space aged people who have long lived in the rhythms of the life cycle in close contact with the sea, can stand firmly between the ocean and the sky on the ground and can have experience of changes of the natural landscape and the seasons.
Working Artists in Ventura, California design by Santos Prescott & Associates / Carde Ten Architects – WAV California building images
Courtyard Community Center building in China design by AZL architects: Chinese architecture east of famous Beijing-Hangzhou great canals
Green Rivers Community Centre Walsall building project in the Midlands, England, UK – design by Sjölander da Cruz Architects
Nagoya Building development Japan design by kotaro horiuchi architect: The funeral hall is set at Nagoya in Japan. The site is located along the street with heavy traffic.
The KBcenter is a new space for cultural and social interaction dedicated to the Slovenian community in Gorizia. It is located in the hart of the 19th century development of the city, on the main street of the town.
Commissioned through MADE (Midlands Architecture & the Designed Environment) and the Government Office for the West Midlands this collaborative project between Sjölander da Cruz Architects and artist Gwen Heeney offers an alternative to the mass produced youth shelters that proliferate today to regenerate that area of Wolverhampton.
Attic is the memory of a house. In attic time is different. Attic is not routine, attic don’t have stress. All the objects are tied to stories. Attic is a narrative space. Also a city can have an attic. A public attic to reflect the collective subconscious.
The concept of the project is that instead of using 1/4 of the project’s budget, originally allocated by the client to cleaning the polluted soil of the site, we discovered that the pollution was heavy metals and therefore stable
Level Centre Rowsley, Derbyshire Architecture, Building, Architect, Picture, Project Level Centre Derbyshire : Rowsley Building Rowsley Development – design by Clash Associates in Derbyshire, England, UK 11 Dec 2008 Level Centre opens in Rowsley, Derbyshire Design: Clash Associates Photographs : Martine Hamilton Knight The Level Centre, designed by Clash Associates, is now officially open. The … Read more
Public Service Hall in Georgia, PSH building design by de Architekten Cie. + Lada Hršak from HL architecture – the square connects the public space with the roof auditorium which becomes the new civic place for the city
Orphanage Project, Ban Tha Song Yang, Thailand, design by TYIN tegnestue, a non-profit organisation working humanitarian through architecture, run by five architect students from NTNU: the projects are financed by more than 60 Norwegian companies, as well as private contributions.
The Melaku Center will be new center of learning, working and projection for the inhabitants of Mek’ele, capital of the Tigray, a region of the north of Ethiopia.
The UK’s leading built environment charity have designed a Masterplan which will lay the building blocks for sustainable and lasting peace in Sierra Leone’s war-ravaged Gola Forest.
The issue of safer buildings for communities affected by natural disasters is growing. Climate Change indicators show a trend towards greater frequency and impact of these disasters