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Kaira Looro 2023 Competition
5 January 2023
The Kaira Looro 2023 theme will be the design of a Primary School for rural areas of Africa, to protect the rights of education of every child.
In the official website (www.kairalooro.com) there is all information: jury, calendar, awards, faqs, registration form.
The registration will open on 13rd January 2023.
This African architectural competition is open to students and young architects as individual participants or as a team.
Images © Balouosalo
Kaira Looro Architecture Competition 2023 Edition
The entries received will be evaluated (in June) by a jury made up of prominent architects, such us:
Kengo Kuma (Kengo Kuma & Associates), Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT Miralles Tagliabue), Agostino Ghirardelli (SBGA | Blengini Ghirardelli), Manuel Aires Mateus (Aires Mateus Architects), Raul Pantaleo (TAM Associati), Mphethi Morojele (MMA Design Studio), Mphethi Morojele (MMA Design Studio), Emmanuelle Moureaux (Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design), Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani e Mohamed Amine Siana and a scientific committee of the organization.
Awards will be given to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places, 2 honourable mentions, 2 special mentions, 20 finalists, and 20 Top 50.The winning project will receive a cash prize (5.000 €) and an internship at Kengo Kuma & Associates studio in Japan, as well as the construction of the project as humanitarian intervention.
The other internships will be awarded to the 2nd place team at the EMBT Miralles Tagliabue in Spain and to the 3rd place at the SBGA Blengini Ghiradelli, and respectively 2.000€ and 1.000€.
Kaira Looro are a non-profit competition, and all proceeds from this design competition will be donated to the development of humanitarian projects aimed at improving the living conditions of poor communities in Africa.
Kaira Looro Architecture Competition 2023 information / image received 050123 from Project Earth 2
Previously on e-architect:
Kaira Looro Competition Winners
Children’s House in Africa – Winners
Architecture Competition to support humanitarian projects in Africa by Balouo Salo Humanitarian Organization
Design by Ziyu Guo from China – the winner of the 2022 edition:
The Winners of the 2021 Kaira Looro Competition for a Women’s House in Africa
Kaira Looro 2021 Competition winning entry – project by Juan Pablo Lopez Isabella from Uruguay:
Kaira Looro Design Competition 2018 Winners
Firt Place Team: OMONIOALY346 from Italy
Project design by: Giacomo Spanio, Sergiu Cernea, Paolo Reali, Nicola Puppin
Location: Senegal, West Africa
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Senegal Buildings
Architecture in Senegal – architectural selection below:
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Design: IDOM
photograph : Francesco Pinton
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House in Dakar
Design: SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects and Antoni Associates
image from architects
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Dakar Railway Station
Project Consultancy: Iglo Architects
image from architects
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Radisson Blu Hotel in Dakar
Design: SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects and Antoni Associates
photo from architecture office
Senegal Hotel Building
Solar Well, Sambacounda village, Senegal, Africa
Design: Raoul Vecchio Architect
picture from architects practice
Solar Well in Senegal
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