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Project • By CONTRERAS EARL Architecture • Museums
Mali Lima Art Museum
The location and brief rightfully encourages the program of the New Lima Art Museum to be buried underground to protect views of the historic Exposition Palace. The design in response nestles adjacent to the historic building, at once burying the programme yet also revealing a façade at a lower level facing the park allowing both buildings’ a strong presence and sense of place in the landscape. The new outdoor plaza is at once an entry zone, a terraced performance space and a sculpture garden and creates new adjacencies to the existing Palace’s own plaza.
Contreras Earl Architecture
The result is a display of contemporary and historic operating in unison, the new Art Museum seeks to acknowledge the existing Pa... More
Project • By Leonardo Marchesi • Heritages
Slavery Memorial
Long caravans starting from Timbouktou have reached Morocco following the Azalai Route for thousands of years.
An army of camels was raised and conducted through deserted lands, strong sandy winds under the most extreme temperatures on the planet, to trade gold for salt, the whole journey lasted 2 months on average.
In a time when the salt stone was the base for conservation of food gold was something easily invested for the benefit of storing food.
Caravans reached Taoudenni to get loaded with salt stones to be then carried to Sigilmassa and therefore Europe.
Taoudenni is the name of the land that is located in the salt basin of the north of Mali, the thousands of pits been dug in the ground for centuries makes Taoudenni one of the big... More