A row has broken out over architect Kunlé Adeyemi's award-winning Makoko Floating School following its collapse earlier this week, with a community leader in Lagos claiming pupils were evacuated three months ago over safety concerns and architecture critics questioning its credentials.
Noah Shemede, headmaster of a nearby school whose pupils made use of the water-borne facilities, told Dezeen that the three-storey, prism-shaped wooden structure was "not strong". "I moved the kids from the school because I believed it would cause danger to the kids," Shemede told Dezeen via Facebook. "I moved for the safety of the kids."
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