Prayer and meditation pavilion
awards:
Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture 2019, shortlisted;
Detail Prize 2009, shortlisted;
Fondazione Frate Sole – International Holy Architecture Award 2008, commented;
BarbaraCapocchin International Award, shortlisted.
Prayer pavilion for the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery: a place that could accommodate prayer, as customary in any place of health-care, but also a space that could host the spiritual complexity of the Sudan country. Our choice was to create a space that could accommodate the prayer and meditation of all faiths.
Read more about the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013
http://www.akdn.org/architecture/project/salam-cardiac-surgery-centre
Place: Khartoum, Sudan
Client: Emergency ong onlus
Status: completed in 2007
Design: TAMassociati
Photo: Marcello Bonfanti