1. They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.
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Favourite building 17
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(1 of 1) 'Mityana Pilgrims' Centre Shrine' designed by Justus Dahinden, 1988.
Favourite building number seventeen. ‘Mityana Pilgrims’ Centre Shrine’ designed by Justus Dahinden in 1988 in Uganda, East-Central Africa.
This place for worhsip was built twenty years after Uganda achieved independence from Britain in 1962. It was designed to look like coconut segments; one of the lower towers includes an open drumming platform.
Dahinden was influenced by the Metabolists, a group of Japanese architects from the 1960s who were themselves influenced by a broad range of ideas from Marxist theory to biological processes. Their Manifesto is made up of four essays entitled ‘Ocean City’, ‘Space City’, ‘Towards Group Formation’ and ‘Material and Man’.
