Showing posts with label Historical period. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical period. Show all posts
Kisumu Alert!
We're losing Kisumu's architectural future now... An update and call to action by AHAC member Janfrans van der Eerden. Check out Janfrans' interesting presentation here.
Nairobi's modernism
'KFA building' on Haile Selassie Avenue. Contributed by Janfrans van der Eerden (www.eerdenarch.nl).
Mahatmah Gandhi Library
Contributed by Emma Miloyo, Design Source
Bull Cafe
Use: Residential
Why is this building interesting? This building is one of the first to accommodate Indian railway labourers, during colonial times.
Criteria:
- Representative of a particular period in history
95 Limuru Road
Year:
1951
Use:
Residential Why is this building interesting? 95 Limuru Road is aesthetically beautiful; harmony is found in the proportions between the columns and the terrace and in the spacing between the windows. It is a good example of Kenyan Art Deco architecture.
Criteria:
- Great architecture and aesthetics
- Representative of a particular period in history
Parliament
Use: Institutional
Why is this building interesting? The parliament buildings are representative of a building of a nations’ capital in a post-colonial time.
Criteria:
- Representative of a particular period in history
City Hall
Year:
1934
Use:
Institutional
Why
is this building interesting? City Hall depicts great architecture with its
Doric columns and its Palladian temple like style.
Criteria:
- Great
architecture and aesthetics- Representative of a particular period in history
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