"Farnana used his position to advocate for the rights of black people and participated in the first Pan African Congress in 1919, initiated by W.E.B. Du Bois. This inspired him to found the first ...

Winner: Emerging architect of the year 2023. South African architect Sumayya Vally. Sumayya Vally is founder of Counterspace, an award-winning architecture and research practice. Vally's current ...

Her intention was to create a design with "a diasporic logic", reflecting the nature of Notting Hill Carnival as a place of gathering for London's Afro-Caribbean community. This led her to design the ...

A thunderstorm raged in the background as I spoke to the architect Sumayya Vally over the phone from her hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa. Luckily, the 30-year-old architect knows how to weather ...

Changemaker, Pioneer, and One to watch. These would all be fair descriptions of South African architect Sumayya Vally who is presently organising the world’s first Islamic Arts Biennale in Saudi ...

"On the occasion of Serpentine Pavilion 2021 designed by Sumayya Vally, Counterspace, Serpentine has co-published a catalogue with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz K̲nig. Richly illustrated ...

After a year’s delay, London’s Serpentine Galleries have unveiled the latest iteration of the summer architectural pavilion. Designed by up-and-coming architecture studio Counterspace, which is led by ...

Amidst the feather-lined outfits, dazzling performances, and bustling crowds at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival sat an elegant, tiered structure that provided a well-needed zone of respite. The ...