Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi is founder of architecture, design and urbanism practice NLÉ.
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Press & Publications
Financial Times | November 2019
Architects look to floating cities as sea levels rise
CHINA DAILY Hong Kong | JANUARY 2019
Nigerian Kunle Adeyemi says he doesn’t aspire to create beautiful buildings but instead focuses on “tackling problems, providing solutions and harnessing opportunities”. This ethos is manifested in the Makoko Floating School, a wooden, floating school and community center he built on a lagoon in Lagos in 2012. Adeyemi designed the structure to provide a prototype… Continue reading CHINA DAILY Hong Kong | JANUARY 2019
Platform – December 2018
On this issue: – KUNLÉ ADEYEMI; – THE VERTICAL CAMPUS – OPEN ARCHI TECTURE; – TAKE A BREATH – VECTOR ARCHITECTS; – URBAN CARPETS – ORAZIO CARPENZANO; – SAN DOMENICO – PIETRO CARLO PELLEGRINI, PORTOGHESI, CASAMONTI, CUCURULLO, NICOSIA;
Metropolis Magazine – December 2018
Black Rhino Academy is one of Metropolis’s Best Buildings of 2018
The Shed – May 2018
ARCHDAILY – NOVEMBER 2018
As part of a collaboration between the Centre Pompidou and the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, the Cosmopolis #1.5: ‘Enlarged Intelligence’ exhibition features the developments of NLÉ Architects’ Makoko Floating School. The Minjiang Floating System (MFS IIIx3), the fourth prototype and the third iteration of the prefabricated self-built system for water, investigates methods to counter the… Continue reading ARCHDAILY – NOVEMBER 2018
DESIGNBOOM – NOVEMBER 2018
NLÉ — the architecture, design, and urbanism practice led by kunlé adeyemi — has revealed its fourth prototype and third iteration of the makoko floating school. first presented in 2013, and relaunched for the 2016 venice biennale, the project is a prefabricated self-built system for water that explores the challenges and opportunities of urbanization and… Continue reading DESIGNBOOM – NOVEMBER 2018
DOMUS – JULY 2018
The Amsterdam-and-Nigeria-based architecture office NLÉ Works designed a temporary pavilion in close collaboration with artist Tino Seghal. The building anticipates The Shed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group, opening in spring 2019 and inspired by Cedric Price unbuilt project for the Fun Palace. The Shed is a cultural and artistic centre… Continue reading DOMUS – JULY 2018
ELEPHANT – NOVEMBER 2018
“Centre Pompidou in Chengdu?” I wondered as I boarded my third flight, bleary eyed and bloated after travelling from Berlin through Frankfurt and Beijing to reach the Sichuan Province’s capital city, and eating too much aeroplane rice en route. Having launched a platform in 2016 devoted to research-based practices across Asia, Africa, South America and… Continue reading ELEPHANT – NOVEMBER 2018