Promontorio's brick-clad Lubango Center rises above an Angolan town square
Brown brick facades of Promontorio's tower in the Angolan town of Lubango recall the tones of traditional African rammed-earth buildings.
The international architecture firm, which was founded in Lisbon in 1990, was tasked with designing the Lubango Center for a prominent site next to the main square of the capital of Angola's Huila district.
The nine-storey, mixed use building was created for developer Gestimovel and contains apartments, offices and shops that share a communal entrance and underground parking.
Promontorio's project is one of several shortlisted in the Tall Building category of the 2018 Dezeen Awards, alongside a state-of-the-art research building in Copenhagen by CF Møller Architects and a luxury hotel in Hong Kong by Foster + Partners.
A simple palette of materials was chosen for this monolithic structure to reflect the local vernacular, as well as ensuring longevity and low maintenance.
Facades are uniformly clad in brickwork set between concrete slabs that, along with the bronze aluminium window frames, are painted white to emphasise the layered effect.
The main facade features recessed balconies that naturally shade the interiors. Perforated sections in the brickwork allow breezes to flow through the building and ventilate the rooms.
"The massiveness of the masonry walls is interrupted by the datum of concrete slabs, which function as a continuous lintel," the architects explained.
"This tectonic expression is reinforced by the ma...
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