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		<title>Africa’s Leading Architects Revealed: The Winners Of The Inaugural Africa Architecture Awards Are Announced!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a gala awards ceremony held on the rooftop of the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, the inaugural Grand Prix and Category Winners of the Africa Architecture Awards were announced on the evening of Thursday, 28 September 2017. Over 130 VIP guests were in attendance at this glittering event, including the Consul-General of France in Cape Town, Mr Laurent Amar, the Chairman of the French South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Philip Geromont, and Claude van Wyk of the Kingdom of The Netherlands Consulate General in Cape Town. The shortlisted finalists were flown into South Africa from across the continent and the world, and hosted by awards founder and sponsor Saint-Gobain. The much-anticipated gala was the culmination of an ambitious two-year awards programme that was initiated and supported by construction industry innovator Saint-Gobain with the ultimate aim of stimulating conversations about African architecture as it cements its place in a global continuum. The Africa Architecture Awards is the first-ever Pan-African awards programme of its kind. A steering panel headed by Professor Lesley Lokko guided the awards with strategic input from ambassador Phill Mashabane, advisor Zahira Asmal, and patron Sir David Adjaye, one of the globe’s most influential voices in architecture. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Celebrating Architecture in Africa” – The Africa Architecture Awards Colloquium</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 05:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winners of the inaugural Africa Architecture Awards, the first Pan-African architecture competition, will be announced at a gala awards ceremony to be held at the newly opened Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town on 28 September 2017. Following the awards ceremony, a free public colloquium titled Celebrating Architecture in Africa will be held the next day to discuss the winning projects. This event will take place on 29 September 2017 at the Institute for Creative Arts at UCT Hiddingh Campus in Cape Town from 09h00 onwards. Participants include members of the Steering Panel and Master Jury for the Africa Architecture Awards. The colloquium is organised by Zahira Asmal, director of The City and advisor to the Africa Architecture Awards, and is hosted by the founder of the awards, Saint-Gobain, in conjunction with UCT’s Institute for Creative Arts. There will be three sessions in total, with the first two sessions will moderated by writer and critic Sean O’Toole, and the third hosted by Ghanaian architect Joe Addo. The public may attend all or any of the sessions. 09h00 – 10h30 Session 1: Making the awards (Steering Panel) Lesley Lokko – Chairperson (Ghana) Luís Urbano (Portugal) Issa Diabaté (Côte d&#8217;Ivoire) Urko Sánchez (Kenya) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The inaugural Africa Architecture Awards announces 20 shortlisted projects out of an unprecedented 307 entered projects situated in 32 African countries.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2017 07:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inaugural Africa Architecture Awards, founded by Saint-Gobain, attracted an unprecedented number of entries for an architecture awards programme in its first edition. More than 500 projects registered to enter the awards before the closing date of 14 July 2017, and a total of 307 projects from across the continent, situated in 32 African countries, completed the registration process and qualified to enter. All 307 projects have since been published on www.africaarchitectureawards.com, with the awards website now acting as a repository of thought-provoking projects spanning the African continent. As a yardstick to gauge the depth and breadth of contemporary African architectural practice, the site alone is an invaluable resource, visited by over 40 000 unique users from mid-May to end-July 2017, with 800-1000 unique visitors accessing the site per day. Thus far, over 450 African broadcast, print and digital publications have given published attention to the awards. More than 100 000 people have participated in the public voting component of the Africa Architecture Awards People’s Choice award. Only one vote per person per day is permitted and voting closes on 18 August 2017. Although still in its infancy, this ambitious awards programme has already become one of the most successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first Pan-African architecture prize, the Africa Architecture Awards, offers a $USD 10 000 prize to its Grand Prix winner!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 07:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inaugural Africa Architecture Awards is noteworthy as the first dedicated Pan-African awards programme of its kind. Launched by founder Saint-Gobain, the awards aim to recognise and reward worthy projects from across the African continent, with one overall winner garnering a $10 000 grand prize. The 2017 Africa Architecture Awards seek to acknowledge standout architectural projects that have been conceived of and/or built on the African continent, and invite entries and nominations from the industry. Anyone in the world meeting the entry criteria can enter, or be entered into the awards, as long as the project pertains to Africa. “Saint-Gobain very simply wants to be the catalyst that brings African architecture and its diaspora into the global conversation, in response to the clear need for such dialogue,” explains Evan Lockhart-Barker, the Managing Director of the Saint-Gobain Retail Business Development Initiative. “The Africa Architecture Awards,“ he continues, “have been established to highlight the continent‘s innovative and collaborative style of solving problems &#8211; architectural or otherwise. Saint-Gobain has engaged with some of the best minds in the field to establish this programme, so that the awards are relevant, contextual and progressive. We look forward to seeing the future stars and collaborative efforts [...]]]></description>
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