Nigeria
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Postcard from Design Week Lagos 2024
Reporting from Nigeria’s capital during Design Week Lagos 2024, our correspondent shares his view from the streets and explores the role of design in economic evolution
By Ugonnaora Owoh Published
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Daniel Obasi discusses Lagos’ Amah members’ club, where vocation and wonder can meet
Amah, a new members’ club founded by photographer, art director and stylist Daniel Obasi, is a creative co-working space and meeting point for Lagos’ creative class
By Mazzi Odu Published
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Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2024: meet the practices
In the Wallpaper* Architects Directory 2024, our latest guide to exciting, emerging practices from around the world, 20 young studios show off their projects and passion
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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‘It is always a pleasure to surprise’: inside Lagos-based high-jewellery house Akano Diamonds
Akunna Nwala-Akano, founder of Akano Diamonds, fills us in on the creative process behind her brand
By Mazzi Odu Published
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Nigerian architects SI.SA draw on 'simplicity, clarity, and unity'
SI.SA, a young Nigerian practice, is featured in the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2024; tour its Scissor House in Ikoyi, an elegant solution to a constrained plot
By Shawn Adams Published
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The John Randle Centre ‘rises from the earth in a nod to Yoruba spirituality’
The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History is an urban regeneration project at the heart of Lagos Island, designed by Studio Imagine Simply Architecture
By Shawn Adams Published
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Josh Egesi on his designs and evolving culture: 'Design is a form of cultural documentation'
Nigerian designer Josh Egesi tells Wallpaper* about the creativity behind his studio, design approach, his country's cultural revolution, and venturing into surfboard design
By Mazzi Odu Published
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Afrobeats and modernism: how the concrete ‘ruins’ of Lagos become a stage
We explore the relationship between Afrobeats and modernism in Lagos, as the Nigerian capital’s concrete structures become a stage for the music genre
By Olorunfemi Adewuyi Published
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Lagos Biennial 2024: the highlights
Lagos Biennial 2024 took over the city’s Tafawa Balewa Square with the theme of ‘refuge’
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Published
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Adidas Lagos champions the city’s ‘resilient, adaptable and go-getter resolve’
Adidas Lagos by Tosin Oshinowo opens its smart retrofit of a 1970s building
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Art X Lagos 2023: discover the artists to watch
Art X Lagos 2023, the 8th edition of West Africa’s biggest art fair, was bigger and better than ever
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Published
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FF Projects brings Image Impressions to the Vaughan-Richards House in Lagos
A collaboration between art and architecture, the new Image Impressions exhibition at the Vaughan-Richards House is curated by FF Projects founder and creative director Faridah Folawiyo
By Mazzi Odu Published
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Highlights from Design Week Lagos 2023
Design Week Lagos 2023 (19-22 October) showcased Nigerian creativity and ideas at Lekki’s Livespot Entertarium
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Published
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The Lagos Light Series harnesses the power of collaboration
The Lagos Light Series is a collaboration between Lagos and Zurich designers presented at 'Sparked!', as part of Design Week Lagos 2023
By Mazzi Odu Published
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Tosin Oshinowo’s cmDesign Atelier is a cultural powerhouse
cmDesign Atelier from Nigeria is part of our series of profiles of architects, spatial designers and builders shaping West Africa's architectural future
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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HTL Africa imagines architecture as an ‘object of performance’
HTL from Nigeria is next up in our series of profiles of architects, spatial designers and builders shaping West Africa’s architectural future
By Ijeoma Ndukwe Published
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Nifemi Marcus-Bello is the Nigerian designer shaping Africa’s designscape
Among Wallpaper’s ‘Future Icons’, Lagos-based designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello speaks of creating a local manufacturing network and documenting design production in Africa
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Published
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Nigerian Studio Contra blends contemporary culture with local craftmanship
Nigerian Studio Contra is part of our series of profiles of architects, spatial designers and builders shaping West Africa's architectural future
By Ijeoma Ndukwe Published