Manuel Herz’s Tambacounda Hospital in Senegal is rooted in community
Manuel Herz’s Tambacounda Hospital in Senegal is rooted in community
A brick extension to the Tambacounda hospital in Senegal by Switzerland-based architect Manuel Herz is a true project of collaboration, rooted to the local community
All images courtesy of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and Le Korsa
This new extension to the Tambacounda hospital in Senegal is ostensibly by the Switzerland-based architect Manuel Herz. Yet such is the depth of the building’s roots in the local community – from labour to process to the functions of the building – that it can only really be called a collaboration. That said, the project is a natural continuation of the 52-year-old architect’s career to date.
Pentagram designs future-proof sonic logo for digital music standard MIDI
MIDI, the global standard that allows digital musical instruments to talk to each other, has a new brand identity based on sound waves designed by Pentagram.
The logo for MIDI, which stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, was created by Pentagram partner and musician Yuri Suzuki together with graphic designer and partner Sascha Lobe.
This refresh of MIDI s identity replaces its previous wordmark and follows the 2020 release of MIDI 2.0, the first significant update of the standard in over 35 years.
Top image: the new MIDI logo. Above: references for the Pentagram design
Remembering the great architects and designers we lost in 2020
To round off our review of 2020, Dezeen looks back at the designers and architects who passed away this year, including Italian designer Enzo Mari, British entrepreneur Terence Conran and Bulgarian artist Christo.
The year also saw the passing of Manlio Armellini, one of the founding fathers of the Salone del Mobile, Hidden Art founder Dieneke Ferguson, French interior designer Christian Liaigre and Enrico Astori, co-founder of Italian design brand Driade.
Other creatives who passed away this year include Bill Menking, co-founder of The Architect s Newspaper, Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti, architect Adolfo Natalini and philosopher and architecture writer Roger Scruton.
The AJ’s top10 stories of 2020
The Covid crisis, problems at the RIBA and the Antepavilion sharks – the AJ looks at the pick of the stories from 2020
The most popular story of the year on the AJ s website. However it certainly wasn t the only one about the RIBA s troubles in 2020. Allford was encouraged to stand for president by the overwhelmingly positive reaction to this article in April. He went on to win.
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The architectural profession reacted in different ways and at different speeds to the emerging Coronavirus crisis. This article, published as the initial lockdown began in mid-March when Zoom calls were still a novelty, was one of the first stories to document the day-to-day impact of Covid on practices and their early responses.