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ISSUE 27  ·  JUL 21 2026  ·  ARCHITECTURE · PHOTOGRAPHY

Andrea Ferro — Dakar's Bubble Houses

Andrea Ferro — Dakar's Bubble Houses
Dakar once held the world's largest cluster of Airform domes — 1,200 sprayed-concrete bubbles built fast and cheap under late-colonial housing pressure, bioclimatic before the word sold. Fewer than 100 remain. Ferro, an architect who left architecture for a camera, spent months in Ouakam shooting them as they stand: absorbed into new builds, half-demolished, still occupied. No nostalgia filter. He photographs the boy at the window, not the dome.
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