Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

Simon said:
ultra modern terminal
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ultra modern terminal is digitally operated.
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Hauna uwezo wa kushirikisha ubongo kwa hoja😂😂😂😂, a town service terminus unataka ifanane na ya mikoa?., hii ni another virsion like zile zenu za brt, just sizeable and customized for the town service function, kila siku nasema mko ovyo, yaani full mikwara kwa kila kitu Kisha mnasema hatuwapendi, tunawachukia ama sisi tuko na roho mbaya blah blah blah, but ni vile wengi wenu mnavyo jibeba ujinga left, right and centre ya mawazo yenu, mnajiletea dharau tu😅😂😂
 

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The Global Legacy of Modernism in Tanzania​


The Global Legacy of Modernism in Tanzania, Interior of Kariakoo Market - edited by Matthew Maganga. Image © Benedikt Redmann
Photo : Kariakoo Market Dar es Salaam


The legacy of the Modernist movement is a complicated one. Spanning a diverse assortment of fiercely debated sub-categories and styles, the Modernist style has established its presence in virtually every continent. Although the movement’s origins may be rooted in Europe and the U.S, outside of the Eurocentric canon architects have redefined and re-established what the definition of a “Modernist” building is. In Sri Lanka, for example, architect Geoffrey Bawa’s sensitive, nature-inspired architectural responses gave rise to the “Tropical Modernism” label. Over in the African continent, it is in the East-African country of Tanzania that some highly unique examples of Modernist architecture are found – headed by architects Anthony Almeida and Beda Amuli.

Of Goan origin, Anthony Almeida was born in and raised in Tanzania’s commercial hub of Dar es Salaam. Going on to study architecture at the prestigious Sir J.J School of Architecture in Mumbai, Modernist figures such as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Alvar Aalto figured heavily in his university education, providing a framework within which he built his own architectural principles. Concluding his architectural education in 1948, Almeida headed back to Dar es Salaam, where in a few years, he was able to start his own architecture firm.

Almeida’s “breakthrough” came in 1955 when Almeida got an offer from the Goan community to design a co-educational primary school for 500 students. Approval for the scheme had to come from the British colonial government – meaning that Almeida had to show his proposed scheme to the Director of Education of the colonial administration. The British planning bureaucracy, however, was quite conservative, and Almeida had to defend his ‘very Modern’ and ‘radical’ scheme for the school. Known as St. Xavier’s Primary School, it exemplified Almeida’s climate-responsiveness and modern functionalism, featuring elevated classrooms held up by structural columns and a muted palette of materials. The distinctive shape of the floor plan, with washrooms placed away from the main building – reminded the Director overseeing his design of ‘an airplane’.

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Floor plan of St. Xavier's Primary School. Image © Anthony Almeida
Entrance to St. Xavier's Primary School. Image © Thomas Kirst
Photo : St. Xavier's Primary School Dar es Salaam Tanzania


Portrait photograph of Anthony Almeida. Image © Francesca Snelling
Photo : architect Anthony Almeida


In conjunction with the increasing emergence of Almeida’s projects was the emergence of another Tanzanian architect – Beda Amuli. The first black African to open an architecture practice in all of East and Central Africa, Amuli studied at the Israel Institute of Technology, starting his own practice in 1970. Arguably the most iconic of his designs was realized in 1973 – Kariakoo Market. Designed in a Brutalist style, Amuli’s concept for the design was an African market under the covering shade of trees. Amuli’s challenge was to translate the shape of a tree — with its stem and branches, into a sturdy, concrete structure. The result was a highly distinct concrete structure, reminiscent of the work of Mexican architect Felix Candela.
Gallery of The Global Legacy of Modernism in Tanzania
Exterior view of Kariakoo Market. Image © Annika Seifert
Kariakoo Market Dar es Salaam
Section drawing of the Kariakoo Market by Beda Amuli. Image © Beda Amuli
Beda Amuli (left) in his university days at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Image Courtesy of ANZA Magazine
Photo : architect Beda Amuli (left) at the Israel Institute of Technology

The surface area of approximately 540 square meters is structured with free-standing concrete pillars, topped with mushroom-shaped crowns which expand to sunshades 15 by 15 meters wide — the ‘trees’ of the African market. Several levels are made use of in the structure - goods deliveries taking place on the cooler basement level, while the area for sales is located two floors above ground. The central staircase creates a chimney effect, which transports hot air into the roof, from where it can escape through the offset between the shading ‘tree crowns’. The environmental considerations of the design are underscored by the multi-purpose use of the sunshades, which collect rainwater used in running the market. The sculptural building is a landmark of its own today and serves as a unique backdrop to Dar es Salaam’s busiest market.
Gallery of The Global Legacy of Modernism in Tanzania
Interior of Kariakoo Market. Image © Annika Seifert
Almeida and Amuli passed away in 2019 and 2016 respectively, but their Modernist legacy lives on. Their body of work is far greater than what was outlined above, each of them realizing hundreds of projects in their lifetimes. In a city, and country, with an eclectic mixture of architectural styles, Almeida and Amuli’s architecture provides a useful starting point to understanding the enduring legacy of the Modernist movement in the African continent
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Source : The Global Legacy of Modernism in Tanzania


Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture​

Washington DC, USA

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Vista of the Museum from Constitution Avenue, looking across the north lawn to the Washington Monument.
Alan Karchmer / NMAAHC
The Museum's symbolic presence on the National Mall is matched by the symbolism of the building itself. Lead designer David Adjaye and lead architect Philip Freelon, together with their architectural team Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, won an international competition in April 2009 to design and deliver the museum to the people of the United States. Groundbreaking on the five-acre site took place in February 2012, with the Museum’s grand opening celebrated on September 24, 2016.

https://www.adjaye.com › who-we-are
Sir David Adjaye OBE - Adjaye Associates
David Adjaye from www.adjaye.com
Founder and Principal. Sir David Adjaye OBE is an award winning architect ...

Place of birth: Dar es Salaam

Awards: Royal Gold Medal
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The son of a diplomat, Adjaye grew up as a citizen of the world. He has lived in Egypt, England, Lebanon, and Tanzania and has visited all 54 independent nations of Africa. Freelon is the leading designer for African American museums today. Before his death in February 2009, J. Max Bond Jr. designed African American historic sites, museum, and archives around the world. As a result, the architects have synthesized a variety of distinctive elements from Africa and the Americas into the building’s design and structure
 




Guys,

Kama serikali yetu ikiwa serious tunaweza kabisa kukimbiza kwenye Automobile industry. Kuna wabongo wako committed kuanzisha na kuendesha viwanda vya magari.

Kama alivyoahidi siku ile PM, leo katembelea kiwanda cha JN Coaches. Hawa jamaa wanatengeneza basi 60 tu kwa mwaka. Hapa serikali ilipaswa kuangalia vikwazo vyao ni nini hasa ili viondolewe.

Kama nilivyoshauri kwenye battle ya buses na hao mabwana mdogo wa kaskazini, sisi tuna mabasi mazuri ila mengi ni imports. Wao mabasi yao mabaya ila ni "ya kwao".
 
Walker255 said:
Guys, this article raises the exact points that I wrote about adolescent pregnancy in Tanzania a few weeks ago. But since most of you were not willing to discuss about this issue ( not that I’m surprised), I’ll continue sharing information about it to raise awareness among the Tanzanians who follow this thread.



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If Magufuli’s approach to this problem works then shouldn’t we be seeing a fall in the number of schoolgirls dropping out because of pregnancy?
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Mkuu Walker255 kama kweli wewe ni mzalendo na uko real naomba unioneshe Magufuli alikosea nini kwenye hili suala la ujauzito kwa mabinti wa shule.
 
Tanzanature said:
Mkuu Walker255 kama kweli wewe ni mzalendo na uko real naomba unioneshe Magufuli alikosea nini kwenye hili suala la ujauzito kwa mabinti wa shule.
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Huwa sipendi kurudia vitu nilivyovizungumzia tayari lakini ngoja tu nikueleweshe. Nipe muda lakini, niko bize sasa hivi.
 
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