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• Tented love: how Senegal created a spectacular new African architecture

  13-01-2022 07:00
  
  After independence in 1960, the country cast off western influences and forged a new African style full of triangular forms, rocket-shaped obelisks and rammed earth. Is this spirit now being suffocated? Our writer takes a tour of the capitalVisiting the International Fair of Dakar is like taking a stroll through the ruins of some ancient Toblerone-worshipping civilisation. A cluster of triangular pavilions rises from a podium, each clad in a rich pattern of seashells and pebbles. These are reach
  
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• Norman Foster’s architecture firm almost doubles profits

  13-01-2022 07:00
  
  Foster + Partners buoyed by Middle East expansion in year ending April 2021 despite global lockdownsThe architecture practice run by Sir Norman Foster almost doubled its profits as it expanded in the Middle East and gained new business despite pandemic lockdowns.Total revenues fell by £33m to £200m in the year ending 30 April 2021, accounts for Foster + Partners, the practice’s main trading company, show. But profits before tax almost doubled to £36.2m during the year, co
  
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