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Lesley Naa Norle Lokko OBE (born 1964) is a Ghanaian-Scottish academic, and novelist. [1] From 2019 to 2020, she was a professor and served as dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture in New York, [2] in addition to holding teaching and other positions in Johannesburg, London, Accra and Edinburgh.
The Sahel region (brown), proposed Great Green Wall (green), and participating countries (white) Satellite photo of the Sahara The Great Green Wall or Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel (French: Grande Muraille Verte pour le Sahara et le Sahel; Arabic: السور الأخضر العظيم, romanized: as-Sūr al-ʾAkhḍar al-ʿAẓīm) is a project adopted by the African Union in ...
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Turkana, as Africa's largest saline lake, is an important area for the study of fauna and flora. It is a breeding ground for the Nile crocodile, hippopotamus, and several venomous snakes. [111] The site was placed the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2018, primarily due to the potential impact of Ethiopia's Gilgel Gibe III Dam. [112] Lamu ...
A common theme in traditional African architecture is the use of fractal scaling: small parts of the structure tend to look similar to larger parts, such as a circular village made of circular houses. [1] African architecture in some areas has been influenced by external cultures for centuries, according to available evidence.
Green building in South Africa is overseen by The Green Building Council of South Africa [1] (launched 2007) which has developed Green Star SA rating tools, based on those developed by the Green Building Council of Australia [2] tools, to provide the property industry with an objective measurement for green buildings and to recognize and reward environmental leadership in the property industry.
In 2022, he became the first native African to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Educated at Technische Universität Berlin , he has lived in Berlin since 1985. Parallel to his studies, he established the Kéré Foundation (formerly Schulbausteine für Gando), and in 2005 he founded Kéré Architecture .
Botanik Social House (formerly Land and Agricultural Bank of South Africa), City Centre, Cape Town, 1938 Cape Town General Post Office Grand Central, Cape Town Commercial building (formerly Scott's Building), City Centre, Cape Town, 1932