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Immediately following Algerian independence in 1962, a significant effort was made by the nation's new authority to decolonize through the eradication of French impacts upon Algeria; however, few architects within the country were prepared to design within a still ambiguous national identity divorced from the nation's history of colonization. [1]
Architecture portal; Algeria portal Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. ... Algerian building and structure stubs (1 C, 174 P)
In 1934, an architectural competition was held to build a new city hall for the expanding metropolis of Algiers. [1] The competition's winners, the Paris-based brothers Edouard and Jean Niermans [] in a team with local architect Jean-Louis Ferlié, designed a compact building in late Art Deco or Stripped Classicism style.
The project to build a new seat for the government of French Algeria was formulated in the context of the 100th anniversary of the Invasion of Algiers in 1830. [2] The complex was built between 1929 and 1934 on a design by architect Jacques Guiauchain, the grandson of one of French Algeria's first colonial architects, Pierre Auguste Guiauchain ...
Algeria accepted the convention on 24 June 1974. [3] There are seven World Heritage Sites in Algeria, with a further six on the tentative list. [3] The first site in Algeria added to the list was Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad, in 1980. The most recent site added was Kasbah of Algiers, which was listed in 1992.
Between 1948 and 1956 the Assemblée algérienne , which succeeded the délégations financières, was located in the building. [1] The building has been the home of the Council of the Nation since its establishment in 1997, after decades of unicameralism following the Algerian War and the country's independence in 1962. [2]
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The People's Palace (Arabic: قصر الشعب, French: Palais du Peuple), formerly Palais d'été ("Summer Palace" of the Governor), is a public building in Algiers. It was first built in the Ottoman era , then became the residence of the Governor of French Algeria , and was the seat of government during the first three years of Independent ...