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Keeping the faith
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Architecture & Interiors
This huge complex hosts three separate houses of worship: a mosque, a church and a synagogue.
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6 Mar 23
StelooLive: An experimental, electronic soundscape in Accra
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Music & Sound Design
In this live mix of fashion, art and sound, Accra-based trail-blazer Dj Steloo creates an experimental soundscape using glass, spoons and cans as instruments.
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14 Mar 17
Black Coffee
Black Coffee’s penchant is for true Afropolitan house: home-brewed but future-focused. Expect almost sculptural balance and beauty.
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23 Feb 17
Ibaaku: Creating unique African beats
Video Interviews
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Music & Sound Design
While in Dakar, we talked to Senegalese music producer Ibaaku about his hypnotic afro-beats.
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14 Dec 16
Just a Band of Kenyan electro-heads
Next Generation
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Music & Sound Design
Jepthumba talks to Kenyan electronic music makers Just a Band, whose popularity has been growing since their 2008 debut album "Scratch to Reveal".
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8 Jul 15
DJ Bubbles
A well respected soul man, vinyl junkie and crate digger, Sakhile Ndlazi aka DJ Bubbles will be performing at Design Indaba Music 2014.
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6 Feb 14
Teardrop beauty
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Architecture & Interiors
Shigeru Ban has designed a house that allows residents to feel as through they have been removed from the rest of the city.
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30 Oct 13
Carly Berger on sustainable housing solutions
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Design Activism
Carly Berger investigates how green housing solutions can successfully be implemented in neighbourhoods.
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19 Sep 12
Black again
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Architecture & Interiors
Black Pearl, a modern reinterpretation of an old property in Rotterdam, was awarded the Public Award at the Dutch Design Awards recently.
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1 Nov 11
Soft integration
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Bridle Road Residence in Cape Town has a lightness and classic elegance about it, while being sustainable.
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16 Jan 11
Stick in the mud
Opinion
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Architecture & Interiors
Add water to soil. Mix. Build house. Architect Malcolm Worby crusades the benefits of mud brick building, writes Delia de Villiers.
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1 Nov 10
Jo Noero on socially purposeful South African architecture
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Architecture & Interiors
Architecture in post-apartheid South Africa has a very important role to play, Jo Noero shares his thoughts on this.
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27 Oct 10
Exorcised ghosts
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect Pedro Gadanho writes about the family home he recently completed in Oporto River in Portugal.
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14 Apr 09
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