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  • Keeping the faith
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    This huge complex hosts three separate houses of worship: a mosque, a church and a synagogue. >
    6 Mar 23
  • DJ Steloo
    StelooLive: An experimental, electronic soundscape in Accra
    Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design / 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. >
    14 Mar 17
  • Black Coffee
    Black Coffee
    Black Coffee’s penchant is for true Afropolitan house: home-brewed but future-focused. Expect almost sculptural balance and beauty. >
    23 Feb 17
  • Ibaaku by Jean Baptiste Joire
    Ibaaku: Creating unique African beats
    Video Interviews > Music & Sound Design
    While in Dakar, we talked to Senegalese music producer Ibaaku about his hypnotic afro-beats. >
    14 Dec 16
  • Kenya's "Just a Band"
    Just a Band of Kenyan electro-heads
    Next Generation > 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". >
    8 Jul 15
  • DJ Bubbles
    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. >
    6 Feb 14
  • Sengokubara residence by Shigeru Ban.
    Teardrop beauty
    Design News > 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. >
    30 Oct 13
  • Carly Berger on sustainable housing solutions
    Carly Berger on sustainable housing solutions
    Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism
    Carly Berger investigates how green housing solutions can successfully be implemented in neighbourhoods. >
    19 Sep 12
  • Black again
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    Black Pearl, a modern reinterpretation of an old property in Rotterdam, was awarded the Public Award at the Dutch Design Awards recently. >
    1 Nov 11
  • Bridle Road Residence, Cape Town.
    Soft integration
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design
    Bridle Road Residence in Cape Town has a lightness and classic elegance about it, while being sustainable. >
    16 Jan 11
  • Stick in the mud
    Opinion > Architecture & Interiors
    Add water to soil. Mix. Build house. Architect Malcolm Worby crusades the benefits of mud brick building, writes Delia de Villiers. >
    1 Nov 10
  • Jo Noero
    Jo Noero on socially purposeful South African architecture
    Talks > Architecture & Interiors
    Architecture in post-apartheid South Africa has a very important role to play, Jo Noero shares his thoughts on this. >
    27 Oct 10
  • Exorcised ghosts
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    Architect Pedro Gadanho writes about the family home he recently completed in Oporto River in Portugal. >
    14 Apr 09
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