The winners of the 14th edition of the triennial Aga Khan Award for Architecture-established in 1977 to encourage architecture projects that successfully address the needs and aspirations of communities in which Muslims have a significant presencehave been announced. A jury including the President of Agha Khan, Sir David Chipperfield, and figures such as Elizabeth Diller and David Adjaye had chosen this year’s winning projects. Among the Aga Khan Award for Architecture winners included are: the “Wasit Wetland Project” in Sharjah, a science centre that transformed a wasteland into a wetland hope to over 350 species of birds, and functioned as catalyst for biodiversity and environmental education; the Palestinian Museum, in Birzeit, designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, and inspired by the surrounding agricultural terraces, thus stressing the link between the land and Palestinian heritage; the Arcadia Education Project, in South Kanarchor, Bangladesh, a modular structure incorporating a space for a preschool, a hostel, a nursery, and a vocational training centre, and that takes a novel approach to a riverine site that is often flooded for five months every year; the Revitalization of Muharraq, in Bahrain, first initiated as a series of restoration and reuse projects; the Public Spaces Development Programme, in the Republic of Tatarstan, initiated in 2017 by its government’s Cabinet of Ministers and which as become a model throughout the Russian Federation; and the Alioune Diop University Teaching and Research Unit, in Bambey, Senegal, led by IDOM design.
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