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Submission: April 18, 2019
Registration: March 31, 2019
Language: English
Location: Sedhiou, Senegal
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

“Peace is a dream, it can become a reality, but to build it we must be capable of dreaming.” (Nelson Mandela) Intercultural hostility and the exploitation of resources on the African continent have triggered a succession of armed conflicts resulting in millions of innocent lives lost and refugees seeking hope in a better life elsewhere. Communities annihilated. Villages and cities torn to the ground. Nations in chaos. Continue reading

Submission: October 16-19, 2017
Registration: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Nka Foundation announces a call for entries for its 5th Earth Architecture Competition: Designing a Rural Arts Center for Senegal, an international architecture competition open to professionals and students of architecture, design, urban planning and others from around the world. Your challenge is to design a unit of a rural arts school for construction in a village in the Casamance region of Senegal.

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Submission: April 02, 2017
Registration: January 20, 2017
Language: English, Italian
Location: Senegal, Tanaf
Prizes: 1st Prize: 2500€ + internship at Kengo Kuma , 2nd Prize: 1000€, 3rd Prize: 500 €
Type: Open

 

Introspection, spirituality and divinity. These are the elements around which the sacred architecture revolves. The light and the lightness of the materials join sacred and profane, creating an architecture that, through spaces and forms, try to invite humans to an introspective research . Continue reading

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