An award-winning floating school designed by Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi for a shantytown in Lagos collapsed this week under heavy rainfall. The structure, a replica of which won the Silver Lion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale had been built in 2013 to offer stable teaching facilities to the residents of Makoko, a floating slum on the Lagos waterfront with a population of more than 100,000 residents.
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