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• Africa’s largest mosque inaugurated in Algeria after years of delays

  26-02-2024 09:14
  
  Prayer room of Great Mosque of Algiers, beset by political wrangling and cost overruns, accommodates 120,000 peopleAlgeria has inaugurated a gigantic mosque on its Mediterranean coastline after years of political upheaval transformed the project from a symbol of state-sponsored strength and religiosity to one of delays and cost overruns.Built by a Chinese construction firm throughout the 2010s, the Great Mosque of Algiers features the world’s tallest minaret, measuring 265 metres (869ft).
  
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• Post-colonial party pads! The architects who got Ghana back in the groove

  26-02-2024 09:00
  
  When the African country gained independence, its architecture exploded as the race to create a new identity began. We go behind the scenes at a show celebrating the builders of this fledgling nationDeep inside the workshops of the Victoria and Albert Museum, a specialist is painstakingly dabbing the back of a torn drawing with a cotton bud. After spending hours carefully removing strips of ageing sticky tape, she is delicately repairing the paper properly, to reveal a dashing modernist building
  
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