Unknown Worksâs Chengdu chippie. Photograph: Unknown Works
Unknown Worksâs Chengdu chippie. Photograph: Unknown Works
The latest survey of the UKâs top emerging practices reveals plenty of style and wit alongside a desire to prioritise diversity, the climate crisis and housing shortages over wealthy clientsâ¦
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âI am a poster child,â says David Ogunmuyiwa, âfor what you get if you invest in peopleâs education, healthcare and homes.â The son of immigrants, he grew up on the Aylesbury estate in south London, the often-vilified place that Tony Blair visited on the morning after his first election as prime minister, as the exemplar of the kind of blighted Britain that he was going to fix. But Ogunmuyiwa, inspired by seeing Richard Rogersâs Lloydâs building across the river from his school, knew that he wanted to be an architect. Which, as the founder of the practice Architecture Doing Place, he now is.
How a Ghanaian slave became a respected philosopher in Germany
One of the many slaves to have left the shores of Ghana did so in the year 1730.
At age four, the story of his life began, not on a good note, but little did he know it will lead to something great.
Anton Wilhelm Amo was his name, born in 1703 and hailed from Axim in the Western region of present-day Ghana.
According to records, Wilhelm Amo was taken to Amsterdam by a preacher working in Ghana to serve the Dutch West Indies Company.
Slavery which is now frowned upon and abolished all over the world was rather a norm at the time as Wilhelm Amo was later given out as a gift’ to Dukes August Wilhelm and Ludwig Rudolf von Wolfenbüttel in Germany as a child-slave.