published on 27 September 2019. The ancient and medieval Mediterranean might have been a bustling stage of ever-changing empires but, across the inhospitable barrier of the …

Africa, the second largest continent, is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean.It is divided almost equally in half by the Equator. Africa's …

The third volume of the seven-volume publication is named Western Africa along the Atlantic Ocean Coast and focuses on the architecture of Guinea-Bissau, …

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and …

The continent's urban population is expected to swell by an estimated 24 million people every year between 2015 and 2045, with implied increases in consumption. By 2030, Africa's under-18 population will grow by nearly 170 million, according to data by Unicef, and young Africans are expected to make up 42% of the world's youth population ...

Apr 2021. With Liverpool at one time being the busiest port and dock area in the world its not surprising that the wealth brought into the city was immense and thus there were many bank buildings, The West Africa House Building was a former bank,constructed in the 1920's from designs from architect's Briggs,Wolstenholme & Thornley,a beautiful ...

West Africa's plastic waste could be fuelling the economy instead of polluting the ocean: experts. Elhadj Bara Dème, University of Portsmouth and Pierre Failler, University of Portsmouth ...

Africa is a rising "multipolar continent" where established and emerging extra-regional powers are vying for commercial gain and geopolitical influence. Turkey has figured prominently in this third surge of foreign interest, developing an increasingly dense network of ties across multiple dimensions throughout Africa. The growing business …

Architecture highlights from West Africa include projects from Guinea-Bissau to Nigeria. In the third part of our collaboration with Dom Publishers, the editors of the Sub-Saharan Africa ...

rendering of a One storey wood house in the US. While wood is not exactly a common building material in West Africa, it gets more play in countries like the US where there is a more prevalent wood ...

This is the design problem: In Ghana, as in other countries in West Africa, stereotypes about buildings made of earth persist because of poor construction. From the cities to the low-income villages, use of concrete – despite its dependence on imported resources – is considered indispensable for building. Yet an excellent, cheap and local ...

In West Africa, these structures are often mosques, built from local materials and designed in a unique style that fuses Islamic architecture with local aesthetic and building style.

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With Liverpool at one time being the busiest port and dock area in the world its not surprising that the wealth brought into the city was immense and thus there were many bank buildings, The West Africa House Building was a former bank,constructed in the 1920's from designs from architect's Briggs,Wolstenholme & Thornley,a beautiful facade, …

An Atakpamé "wall is built of moulded wet mud balls (200 mm in diameter) to a thickness of about 300 mm. Courses of up to 600 mm in height are laid, then allowed to set and dry out before the next course is added. Each course is properly levelled at the top, the sides of the wall are scraped smooth with an old cutlass.

Due to open in stages from 2024, it will be a world-class arts, culture and heritage complex that will celebrate, research and conserve west African and diaspora …

The region may be divided into several broad physiographic regions. The northern portion of western Africa is composed of a broad band of semiarid terrain, called the western Sudan, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to the area of Lake Chad on the east, a distance of about 2,500 miles (4,000 km). It is largely a plateau of modest …

Architecture to Modern Architecture in West Africa, Liberia . Jerroy Nya Gbatu . North China University of Technology . Beijing, China 100144 . ... the world? As it turns out, building trades have only become a destructive force in the last few hundred years. Before that time, most structures were built with methods that did little to

Apr. 2021. With Liverpool at one time being the busiest port and dock area in the world its not surprising that the wealth brought into the city was immense and thus there were many bank buildings, The West Africa House Building was a former bank,constructed in the 1920's from designs from architect's Briggs,Wolstenholme & Thornley,a beautiful ...

Much of the west African art scene's success is owed to collectivity and community. Residency programmes founded by some of today's most successful contemporary artists — such as Kehinde ...

By tracing flows of building materials across the West African urban corridor linking the cities of Abidjan, Accra, Lomé, Cotonou, Porto-Novo and Lagos, this …

published on 27 September 2019. The ancient and medieval Mediterranean might have been a bustling stage of ever-changing empires but, across the inhospitable barrier of the Sahara Desert, West Africans were equally …

Landscapes of West Africa: A Window on a Changing World is an atlas and unique dataset that uses time-series satellite image data and field-based photography to tell the story of wide-ranging land change across 17 countries. EROS scientists selected the years 1975, 2000 and 2013 to characterize the landscapes and create the product, which …

The African Designs Development Centre, Nwoko's factory, is the sole industrial venture in town and is under the direction of Nwoko's son, 54-year-old Ashim, an architect and building contractor.

Ponte City Apartments, Johannesburg, South Africa. Height: Approx. 568 feet (173 metres) | No. of floors: 55. Ponte City Apartments is the tallest residential building in Africa. Ponte used to be a choice residence in Johannesburg in the 1970s, however the consequences of the country's apartheid stripped it, and its surroundings in Hillbrow ...

The building now houses several shops, a library, communal eating spaces and even a makeshift movie theatre where a resident spends its days curled up in a broken pleather armchair in …

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Iconic buildings serving a religious purpose are found throughout the continent, ... housing one of the oldest ethnic groups in West Africa; the Kassena tribe. With vernacular houses dating back ...

The three-story building, designed by David Adjaye, looks almost like a palace from the ancient Kingdom of Benin. Mr. Adjaye intends it to be completed in five years, he said in a telephone interview.