Cultural centre in Sinthian (SN), Toshiko Mori Architect 2015. For the New-York-based Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Toshiko Mori designed this multi-functional building in a small village in north-eastern Senegal. The centre comprises artists’ residences, ateliers, performance spaces and a covered marketplace. To be able to employ as many local labourers as possible, the architect (who worked pro bono) combined concrete pillars with traditional local materials such as brick, bamboo roof trusses and thatch roofing. and thatch roofing.
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