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 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 2025's jury panel features a jury made up of the most award-winning architects in the world, including: Kengo Kuma (Jury President since 2016), Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT), Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem e Ramón Vilalta(RCR Arquitectes), Agostino Ghirardelli (SBGA), Sir David Adjaye OM OBE (David Adjaye Associates), Mario Cucinella (MCA), Amanda Levete (AL_A), Manuel Aires Mateus, Raul Pantaleo (TAM Associati), Giancarlo Mazzanti (El Equipo Mazzanti), Emmanuelle Moureaux, Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani, Mohamed Amine Siana.
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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Kengo Kuma and Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT, Barcelona, Spain
Amanda Levete Architects , London, UK
SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli, Milan, Italy
5,000€ to 1st Prize
2,000€ to 2nd Prize
1,000€ to 3rd Prize
100€ to 2 Honorable Mentions
10 Special Mentions
35 Finalists
Construction of the winning project
International visibility with 500k impressum
Featuring on paper book worldwide
Exhibition and sharing with partners
Winner of Kaira Looro 2024
Maternity Center
Winner of Kaira Looro 2023
Primary School
Winner of Kaira Looro 2022
Children's House
Winner of Kaira Looro 2021
Women's House
Winner of Kaira Looro 2020
Emergency Operations Center
Winner of Kaira Looro 2020
Emergency Operations Center
Winner of Kaira Looro 2020
Emergency Operations Center
Winner of Kaira Looro 2019
Peace Pavillon
Winner of Kaira Looro 2018
Cultural Center
Winner of Kaira Looro 2018
Cultural Center
Winner of Kaira Looro 2018
Cultural Center
Winner of Kaira Looro 2018
Cultural Center
Winner of Kaira Looro 2017
Sacred Architecture
Winner of Kaira Looro 2017
Sacred Architecture
Winner of Kaira Looro 2017
Sacred Architecture
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.