A museum in coastal South African city Durban has been named best new building in Africa, in the continent's inaugural architecture awards.
Umkhumbane Cultural and Heritage Museum, by local firm Choromanski Architects, was awarded the Grand Prix in the Africa Architecture Awards, the first Pan-African architecture awards programme, which was established by construction group Saint-Gobain to showcase Africa's best projects.
Located in Cato Manor, one of the largest forced removals during apartheid, the building features walls with triangular perforations, which bring dappled light into a grand atrium.
The architects were awarded $10 000 (approximately £7,500) in recognition of the project's merits.
Durban firm Choromanski Architects' Umkhumbane Cultural and Heritage Museum received the top prize at the inaugural Africa Architecture Awards The inaugural Africa Architecture Awards took place at the Thomas Heatherwick-designed Zeitz MOCAA ? a building set to become the world's most important exhibition space for African art.
As patron for the awards, British architect David Adjaye described the programme as "very critical" in recognising the emergence of architecturally significant projects on the continent.
"Now is the time to promote excellence and best practice on the continent," said Adjaye.
"The Africa Architecture Awards are particularly important because this is the moment that a lot is happening on the continent in terms of develop...