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Maternity Centre
Senegal, Africa
Contest for a selection of a Maternity Centre’ facility where women can feel safe, receive essential medical care, and enjoy optimal sanitary conditions.
Kaira Looro 2025
Architecture Competition
Online in January 2025
Kaira Looro is the most important and influential architecture competition worldwide, open to students and young architects, focusing on the themes of humanitarian architecture for emergencies and development.
The competition features a jury made up of the most award-winning architects in the world, including: Kengo Kuma (Jury President since 2016), Benedetta Tagliabue, Agostino Ghirardelli (SBGA), Manuel Aires Mateus, Mario Cucinella, Raul Pantaleo (TAM Associati), Sir David Adjaye OM OBE (David Adjaye Associates), Giancarlo Mazzanti (El Equipo Mazzanti), Amanda Levete (AL_A), Urko Sanchez (Urko Sanchez Architects), Emmanuelle Moureaux, Tosin Oshinowo (Oshinowo Studio), Sharon Davis, El Kabbaj, Siana, Kettani, and others.
Kaira Looro is an unique non-profit event with the following goals: to discover and launch young architectural talents internationally through prestigious awards and internships at the most important architecture firms; to raise awareness in the international community about humanitarian emergencies; and to support charity projects by donating all competition proceeds (registration fees) to these causes.
The words “Kaira Looro” come from the language of the Mandinka people, an African culture in the area where the humanitarian projects are developed. The words mean “architecture for peace".
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Competition Awards
Internships
Kengo Kuma and Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT, Barcelona, Spain
Amanda Levete Architects , London, UK
SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli, Milan, Italy
Cash prizes
5,000€ to 1st Prize
2,000€ to 2nd Prize
1,000€ to 3rd Prize
10 Special Mentions
Recognitions
Construction of the winning project
International visibility with 500k impressum
Featuring on paper book worldwide
Exhibition and sharing with partners
Architects on Jury
Architecture firms
Kaira Looro has the honor and pleasure of having on the jury some of the most famous and influential architects in the world, who share the humanitarian aims of the competition and who make up the jury. These are the architects abn architecture firms who collaborate or have collaborated with Kaira Looro in recent years.
Previous winners
Bao Gia Luong
Winner of Kaira Looro 2024
Maternity Center
Artha Krisiantara
Winner of Kaira Looro 2023
Primary School
Ziyu Guo
Winner of Kaira Looro 2022
Children's House
Juan Pablo Lopez Isabella
Winner of Kaira Looro 2021
Women's House
Aleksandra Wróbel
Winner of Kaira Looro 2020
Emergency Operations Center
Kamil Owczarek
Winner of Kaira Looro 2020
Emergency Operations Center
Agnieszka Witaszek
Winner of Kaira Looro 2020
Emergency Operations Center
Changze Cai
Winner of Kaira Looro 2019
Peace Pavillon
Giacomo Spanio
Winner of Kaira Looro 2018
Cultural Center
Paolo Reali
Winner of Kaira Looro 2018
Cultural Center
Sergiu Cernea
Winner of Kaira Looro 2018
Cultural Center
Nicola Puppin
Winner of Kaira Looro 2018
Cultural Center
Natalia Serafin
Winner of Kaira Looro 2017
Sacred Architecture
Anita Wisniewska
Winner of Kaira Looro 2017
Sacred Architecture
Paulina Gorecka
Winner of Kaira Looro 2017
Sacred Architecture
Past Editions
Primary School
Senegal, Africa
Contest aimed for the selection of a new school model in the rural contexts of southern Senegal, to protect the right to education of every children.
Children's House
Senegal, Africa
Contest aimed of selecting an architecture as a warm and welcoming place where activities aimed at preventing child malnutrition can be carried out in a rural environment
Women's House
Baghere, Senegal
The objective of the architecture competition is the creation of a “Women’s House” within a symbolic and environmentally friendly structure that is inspired by local traditions, that can promote Gender Equality.
Emergency Operations Centre
Sub-Saharian Africa
Competition aimed to design an architecture that will house an EOC (Emergency Operations Center) and that can help to facilitate the humanitarian operations of international organisations.
Peace Pavilion
Sedhiou, Senegal, Africa
Remembering the victims through the universal value of peace can help to lay the foundation for the creation of an inclusive and cohesive society.
Cultural Center
Sedhiou, Senegal, Africa
Hundred-years old cultures give birth to Communities, being transmitted through rhymes of those who are narrating it and interpretating tha past through wisdom. One's accomplishments result from rituals and metamorphosis, bonding the human being to its own roots.
Sacred Architecture
Tanaff, Senegal, Africa
Introspection, spirituality and divinity. These are the elements around which the sacred architecture revolves. The light and the lightness of the materials join sacred and profane, creating an architecture.
Workshop '16
Catania, Italy, Europa
The event represented an international architecture workshop organized in september 2016 together with In/arch Sicilia and CA2Lab from University of Catania, aimed to support the Dam-Bridge project.
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