Architecture

Elgin Rust Reimagines the Future of Architecture Through Cyanotype in Sky Cities: Futures in Flux in Cape Town

Architecture, Exhibition /
Sky Cities: Futures in Flux

Cape Town-based artist Elgin Rust explores the intersection of architecture, climate change and speculative urban futures in Sky Cities: Futures in Flux, a solo exhibition opening at THE AVA Gallery in Cape Town on 15 October 2026. Combining architectural photography, digital manipulation and traditional cyanotype printing, the exhibition transforms existing buildings into imagined floating cities

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Fatiya Diene Mazza on Sangalkam Institute, Material Intelligence and the Future of Senegalese Architecture

Architecture, Interviews /
Fatiya Diene Mazza, Founder and Lead Architect of ID+EA Architecture. Photo: Bizenga.

From an international career spanning the United States and Brazil to founding ID+EA Architecture in Dakar, Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza has developed a practice that resists the idea of a singular architectural language. Her work moves between civic infrastructure, private residences and educational spaces, united not by a recognisable aesthetic but by a commitment

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Van Alen Institute revives Paris Prize as Re:Paris Prize at inaugural Pan-African Biennale

Architecture, Pan-African Biennale /
ReParis-Prize

The historic architecture award returns after nearly three decades with a new focus on reparative and regenerative urbanism across the post-colonial world After nearly three decades, the Paris Prize is returning — but with a fundamentally different purpose. The Van Alen Institute has announced the revival of its historic architecture award as the Re:Paris Prize,

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TAELON7 Turns the Threshold of FCA Ghana into a Provisional Civic Interior

Architecture, Exhibition /
At the Interstice by TAELON7 at the Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana, Accra. © Juergen Benson-Strohmayer

At the Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana in Accra, black shade net stretches between slender steel poles and tensioned cables, moving from the gallery into the courtyard and towards the historic W.E.B. Du Bois Centre for Pan African Culture. Rather than creating another enclosed room, the intervention establishes a porous architecture in which the boundaries

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David Adjaye Reimagines Kigali’s Historic 1930 Prison Site as Mater Misericordiae Cathedral

Architecture /
Rwanda’s Mater Misericordiae Cathedral

Planned for a historic prison site in central Kigali, the 5,000-seat cathedral brings together religious architecture, adaptive reuse and Rwanda’s wider ambitions for cultural tourism. A former colonial-era prison in the centre of Kigali is set to become the site of one of Rwanda’s most ambitious pieces of contemporary religious architecture. Designed by David Adjaye,

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What to Expect at the First Pan-African Biennale in Nairobi: Five Days of Architecture, Memory and African Futures

Architecture, Pan-African Biennale /
The inaugural edition of the Pan-African Biennale

Nairobi · 7–11 September 2026 This September, Nairobi will become the meeting point for one of the most ambitious new platforms for African architecture and spatial practice: the inaugural Pan-African Biennale (PAB). Taking place from 7 to 11 September 2026, the Biennale is positioning itself as the first continental architecture biennale in history, bringing together

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In Senegal, Fatiya Diene Mazza Designs Sangalkam Institute as a Living Classroom Near Dakar

Architecture /

On a four-hectare site in Sangalkam, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegalese architecture studio ID+EA Architecture, led by founder and lead architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, is developing an educational campus in which the conventional boundaries between classroom, landscape and productive infrastructure are deliberately blurred. The Sangalkam Institute brings together academic buildings, gardens, agricultural spaces, sports

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Africa Is Finally Designing the Stadiums That Will Welcome the World: The African Architects Behind Morocco’s 2030 FIFA World Cup Vision

Architecture, Cultural Intelligence /

For generations, Africa has gifted the world extraordinary footballers. From Roger Milla’s dazzling runs in Italy, George Weah’s historic Ballon d’Or triumph, and Didier Drogba’s leadership, to the brilliance of Mohamed Salah, Achraf Hakimi and Victor Osimhen, the continent has helped shape football’s global identity through talent, resilience and passion. Yet while Africa has transformed

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Mbamba: Botswana’s Newest Luxury Safari Camp Brings Timeless Safari Elegance to the Okavango Delta

Architecture /

In the remote northern reaches of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where floodplains, lagoons, grasslands and ancient islands converge to create one of Africa’s most extraordinary ecosystems, a new safari destination is redefining luxury through heritage, storytelling and wilderness immersion. Mbamba, one of the newest additions to Botswana’s luxury safari landscape, opened in April 2025 as a

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From Algeria to Zimbabwe: Meet the Spatial Practices Shaping the First-Ever Pan-African Biennale

Architecture, Pan-African Biennale /
RICA, MASS Design, Rwanda. Image Courtesy of Pan-African Biennale (PAB)

When the Pan-African Biennale opens in Nairobi this September, it will mark a historic moment for architecture and spatial practice across the continent. For the first time, Africa will host a continental architecture biennale conceived, curated, and led from within the continent itself, bringing together architects, designers, researchers, collectives, material practitioners, and spatial thinkers from

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