R75m Durban museum wins at inaugural Africa Architecture Awards
A museum built in Durban to celebrate Zulu heritage has won at the first Africa Architecture Awards. Built for R75m in 2016 and designed by Choromanski Architects of Durban‚ uMkhumbane Cultural and Heritage Museum in Cato Manor was unveiled as the $10‚000 (R135‚000) winner on Thursday night, at the new Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town. The awards‚ sponsored by construction materials giant Saint-Obtains‚ attracted 307 entries from 32 countries. The shortlist of 21 projects‚ as well as the final winners‚ were chosen by a jury of leading African architects and academics. Saint-Gobain retail division MD Evan Lockhart-Barker said: "Although this is only the first edition of the Africa Architecture Awards‚ we believe we have captured an incredible moment in time for Pan-African architecture. "Yet we still have a way to go to write our own story about architecture and its role here. Africa is indeed rising … but due to the continent’s resourcefulness and complex regiona...
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