Text courtesy of The Pritzker Architecture Prize.
After the Burkinabè uprising in 2014 destroyed the former parliament building, the new Burkina Faso National Assembly, commissioned by former President, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, enables new views, physically and metaphorically. The focal point is a stepped and latticed pyramidal building, housing a 127-person assembly hall on the interior, while encouraging informal congregation of its citizens on the exterior. This building is one piece of a greater master plan, envisioned to include indigenous flora, exhibition spaces, courtyards, retail and a monument to those who lost their lives in protest of the old regime.
