African Design Magazine October 2016 | Page 20

africa l The new Kintele Congress Centre and Resort Hotel (KCC) by Avcı Architects is in a newly developing area of Brazzaville, to the north of the new Olympic Centre. The site has panaromic views of the Congo River to the south and a forested unbuilt landscape to the north. The topography of the site is a valley carved out by the great Congo River which creates an island M’Bamaou in the foreground, and the buildings sit parallel to the contours of this valley, falling towards the river. 20 africandesignmagazine.com