A highlight of the event was a nearly three-hour tour of Lomé’s architectural gems, led by Togolese practitioner Sabrine Bako. It encompassed the magnificent crumbling remains of the derelict Hotel de ...

The site’s identity is preserved by leaving the existing buildings in place. New constructions are organized around a vegetal playground, following a “U shaped configuration”. Wide outdoor ...

Studio Neida hopes that by boosting awareness about the building, it can be saved from the constant threat of demolition. Other Lomé modernist buildings are faring better. The 1980 West African ...

This is the main building market Adawlato of Lomé which is consumed by the massive fire. Everything is in ashes. And there is concern that the higher levels of the building collapsed. It is a ...

According to the director of the cultural centre, Sonia Lawson, the palace ‘played a major role in the building of the colonial area of Lomé’ more than a century ago. ‘The map of the main avenues was ...