Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies.

4th Mainland Bridge & Masterplan / NLE Works

Architects: NLé Works
Location: Oma, Lagos, Nigeria
Project Team: Project Architect/Associate-in-charge: Kunle Adeyemi
Project Year: 2008
Photographer: NLE
Website: www.nleworks.com

- 06 May 2016
- Datum Editorial
Transit Oriented , Selected Works , Bridges , Contemporary , Contemporary African Directory ,

From the Architects:
There are great opportunities in the heart of Lagos…

4th Mainland Bridge & Masterplan / NLE Works

With these opportunities come an intense congestion; causing pressures that threaten to paralyze the city’s circulation, its growth and its people.

4th Mainland Bridge & Masterplan / NLE Works

To reduce this pressure, we propose an operation – the 4th Mainland Bridge. The operation will be the insertion of a bypass; a bridge within the body of Lagos. In addition to this bridge, we also propose a new heart to support the bridge. This ‘new bridge and new heart’ in the body of Lagos will not be typical infrastructure; they will connect people in large numbers and improve their natural flow through a reorganization of vehicular, waterways, and pedestrian modes of transportation.

4th Mainland Bridge & Masterplan / NLE Works

The 2 level bridge will not only function as a means for vehicular traffic on its upper level, it will stimulate and accommodate pedestrian, social, commercial and cultural interactions on it’s lower level – ‘Lagos Life’ – with its tropical environment and intimate street level exchanges. The Fourth Mainland Bridge in conjunction with existing road networks would establish a primary ring road around Lagos. This ring road will provide alternative traffic routes from Lekki to Ikorodu, Ikeja to Ajah, relieving the 3rd Mainland bridge of its overstretched capacity.

4th Mainland Bridge & Masterplan / NLE Works

With this improved flow of people across Lagos, the city will be relieved of traffic congestion, will maximize its great opportunities and grow better.

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Eco Maison / Studio Tamassociati
TAM associati inaugurated the 'eco-maison', the first batch of the H2OS project, which envisages the construction of an eco-village in Senegal’s Keur Village, 200 km from Dakar in a scheme that consists of common spaces and autonomous housing modules from the point of view of Energy and water ...

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Makoko Floating School/ NLÉ
The Makoko Floating School is movable 'building' or 'watercraft' currently located in the aquatic community of Makoko. It is a floating structure that adapts to the tidal changes and varying water levels, making it invulnerable to flooding and storm surges. It is designed to use renewable ener...

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