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Mar 04

United Bank of Addis Ababa

United Bank of Addis Ababa

Söhne & Partner Architekten in collaboration with Ethiopian firm BET architects have designed a new United Bank building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with a dragon-scale facade. The building form is conceived as a composition of a tower and podium articulated with diamond shaped unit interwoven together forming unity of units to symbolize the ‘Hibret’/ Unity Bank. At the …

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Jun 20

Addis Ababa National Stadium & Sport Village

Addis Ababa National Stadium & Sport Village

LAVA [Laboratory for Visionary Architecture] have won a competition to design a sports complex in Ethiopia, which will include an excavated football stadium surrounded by earth stands. Inspired by the woven patterns of traditional local food baskets, the exterior will be clad in an array of coloured panels while the stadium will be constructed from …

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