Author Archives: Immaculata Abba

Revisit: New Culture Studios in Ibadan, Nigeria by Demas Nwoko

By Immaculata Abba 13 February 2024 Revisit

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Demas Nwoko’s ever‑evolving arts and culture centre in Ibadan, Nigeria, offers lessons in local and sustainable ways of building

‘All Change!’ is an apt metaphor for a continent that, like Lagos itself, is in an exhilarating state of flux

24 December 2014 By Lesley Lokko

If change can be said to be Africa’s ‘natural’ condition, what role…

Tropical tropes: Irish Modernism in West Africa

29 November 2019 By Lisa Godson

Irish missionaries in West Africa in the 20th century embraced the Tropical…

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Surf Ghana Collective in Busua, Ghana by Glenn DeRoché + Juergen Strohmayer

24 July 2023 By Elise Limon

Glenn DeRoché and Juergen Strohmayer use local and low-carbon materials to transform…

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Return and resettlement: masterplan in Ngarannam, Nigeria by Tosin Oshinowo

28 September 2023 By Nerea Amorós Elorduy

While Ngarannam proposes improvements, it is built around the same masterplan and…

the cover of The Architectural Review February 2024 issue with theme 'repair'. The cover shows cracks in brown earthy ground stapled over to represent repair, and is featured over a green background

AR February 2024: Repair

5 February 2024 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont and Kristina Rapacki

Riwaq | Theaster Gates | Demas Nwoko | Lin Huiyin and Liang…

Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed. In their fearless storytelling, independent critical voices explore the forces that shape the homes, cities and places we inhabit.

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