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Everyday Urbanism — Oyingbo, Lagos, Nigeria. 2023. The different adaptive uses of interstitial (public) spaces underneath and around the bridge that is being built to allow pedestrian and vehicular crossing over the Lagos Red Line rail tracks. #MakeWayForMe #LagosRedLine #everydaystructures #everydayurbanism #everydaybuildings #everydayspaces #everydaypeople #everydayafrica #urbanisationinAfrica #architectureinafrica #urbanisminafrica #urbanisation #architecture #urbanism #lagos #yení (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrSomTcspDY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I think I have only just realised (as of two days ago) one of the reasons I shoot the way I shoot. Without the human factor, I am very interested in the elements that make up a building. To try to piece them apart, and bring them back holistically to context, whether it's entranceways, openings, roofs, roof water drains, signage, etc. It tends to feel like these elements call out to me. In this instance, it was the strange trapezoid opening on the façade of this uncompleted church building combined with the way the partly visible stairs gives the false impression that it is a half-turn or dog-leg staircase leading into the roof's ceiling. Of course it wasn't leading into the ceiling! 😅 I made sure to confirm. Unfortunately I couldn't allay their fears enough to allow me take pictures inside. The interior was less impressive — unpainted and unrendered with plaster, just brute concrete and floors covered with fine cement dust — but it featured the typical galleries suspended on columns to either flanks of a church's nave. Ikot Efa Area, Calabar Field, along Murtala Mohammed Highway, Calabar, Cross River State. 2020. #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #calabararchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #facade #calabar #yení #art (at Calabar Municipal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq5BAOqMFhz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Apostolic Church Nigeria. Ikot Efa Area, Murtala Muhammed Highway, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. 2020. #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #calabararchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #calabar #yení #art (at Calabar Municipal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq3qL6DMbCW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It's Easter! Another time to know and ponder about the love, and significance of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Apostolic Church Nigeria. Ikot Efa Area, Murtala Muhammed Highway, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. 2020. Happy Easter! 🎉 #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #calabararchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #arquitectura #calabar #yení #art #easter (at Calabar Municipal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq1AzaXMtmE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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IMR building. Ogunlana Drive, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria. 2022. #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #lagosarchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #arquitectura #lagos #yení https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqe_A3gMufo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Everyday Buildings — Surulere. Ogunlana Drive, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria. 2022. #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #lagosarchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #arquitectura #lagos #yení (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqaF7Q2sBzV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Everyday Buildings - Contrived Reality Ìkòròdú, Lagos, Nigeria. 2023. Midjourney's AI tries to construct what I think contains different aspects of Nigerian architecture. From the crawling vegetation on the overhanging roof shading a red painted wall with shops, that feels like its from South East or Mid Western Nigeria. First floor reminds of empty abandoned buildings on Lagos Island and many parts of Nigeria really. 2nd floor; I'm not quite sure where to place it... 🤔 70/80s factory styled buildings that have had their use typology changed. Reminds me of a bunch building in Calabar tho. I didn't set much parameters. Just "everyday buildings, Ikorodu and Nigeria". #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #lagosarchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #lagos #yení #art #AIart #midjourney #midjourneyart #experimentation (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqVOX7-MlOn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Last Days Messengers Mission. Ikot Ansa, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. 2020. #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #architectureinafrica #everydayafrica #architecture #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #lagos #yení (at Calabar Municipal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqP46R2sSsx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Urbanisation and Gentrification: The private building of stalls & shops (in yellow & orange) built sometime in 2018, replaced a one-story building. While another building to its right was replaced sometime between 2019-2020 by a low-rise office development painted in grey. Yába has been trying to densify itself for some years particularly with its proximity to the island from the mainland. Meanwhile a new bridge taking vehicles from Ojuelegba Road to Murtala Mohammed Highway, above the rail line is separating the visual connection from one road side of the Yába market from the other end of the road. While also changing how traders and customers interact with this section of the city. Image 1: Yaba Market, Lagos. 2018. Image 2: Yaba Market, Lagos. 2022. #MakeWayForMe #LagosRedLine #urbanisationinAfrica #everydaystructures #everydayurbanism #urbanisminafrica #urbanisation #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #lagosarchitecture #everydayafrica #documentary #architecture #lagos #yení #art (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp0py60LaxX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Blue Train on Red Line. Against the backdrop of an exposed section of a residential building demolished to make way for the new train terminal at Yába. Traders adjust their stall or walk sideways as a work train comes across. Yába, Lagos, Nigeria. 2022 versus 2023. #MakeWayForMe #LagosRedLine #LagosBlueLine #ifdemolitioncouldbecolourful #ifdemolitioncouldbemeaningful #demolition #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #urbanisationinAfrica #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #lagosarchitecture #urbanisminafrica #everydayafrica #architecture #urbanism #lagos #yení #art (at Yaba, Lagos) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpw22hsM7Mt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Blue Train on Red Line. Against the backdrop of an exposed section of a residential building demolished to make way for the new train terminal at Yába. Traders adjust their stall or walk sideways as a work train comes across. Yába, Lagos, Nigeria. 2022 versus 2023. #MakeWayForMe #LagosRedLine #LagosBlueLine #ifdemolitioncouldbecolourful #ifdemolitioncouldbemeaningful #demolition #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #urbanisationinAfrica #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #lagosarchitecture #urbanisminafrica #everydayafrica #architecture #urbanism #lagos #yení #art (at Yaba, Lagos) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpw2Aq2M8nf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Stairway for pedestrian crossing over the rail tracks for the Lagos Red Line rail project at Yába. Yába, Lagos. 2023. #MakeWayForMe #everydaystructures #everydaybuildings #everydayurbanism #architecturalphotography #urbanisationinAfrica #architectureinafrica #urbanisminafrica #everydayafrica #lagosredline #architecture #urbanism #lagos #yení #art (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpn3vtkL9QL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria 2022. #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #lagosarchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #Ikorodu #lagos #yení #art (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpgBlqEsY0r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Marina Train Station. Marina, Lagos Island, Lagos. 2023. The Lagos Blue Line is almost done for completion, and citizens who ply the new rail route are looking forward to using it. #MakeWayForMe #LagosBlueLine #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #lagosarchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #lagos #yení (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYV7o3LQs5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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University of Lagos Women Society Crech, Nursery and Primary School. University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. 2023. #everydaybuildings #architecturalphotography #nigerianarchitecture #architectureinafrica #africanarchitecture #lagosarchitecture #everydayafrica #architecture #lagos #yení (at University of Lagos) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoUxwPuME4s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Professor Ekundayo Adeyinka Adeyemi who passed on, this day last year, was the first professor of architecture from Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Adeyemi served in his academic capacity first at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria (ABU Zaria), then Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), to Covenant University, and finally at Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH) now University of Cross River State, Calabar (UNICROSS). I had hoped to see him during one of his rare visits at the architecture department at UNICROSS, but that never happened in time before the pandemic struck. Images 1, 3 & 5: from "In The Making Of An Architect ... The Zaria Experience" written by Prof. Ekundayo Adeyemi. Image 2: Hallway with students walking at the classroom/studio building at the Department of Architecture, University of Cross River State, Calabar. 2021. Image 4: Staff building at the Department of Architecture, University of Cross River State, Calabar. 2021. Image 6: Door to Prof. Ekundayo Adeyemi's office at the Department of Architecture, University of Cross River State, Calabar. 2021. Rest on Prof. Ekundayo Adeyemi (27 February 1937 – 25 January 2022). #profekundayoadeyemi #architectureinafrica #architectureschool #curatorialresearch #curatorial #archive #yení (at CROSS-RIVER STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY,(CRUTECH),CALABAR) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2xTi1smJD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Professor Ekundayo Adeyemi 1937 - 2022, who passed on, this day last year, was the first professor of architecture from Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Adeyemi served in his academic capacity first at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria (ABU Zaria), then Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), to Covenant University, and finally at Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH) now University of Cross River State, Calabar (UNICROSS). I had hoped to see him during one of his rare visits at the architecture department at UNICROSS, but that never happened in time before the pandemic struck. Images 1, 3 & 5: from "In The Making Of An Architect ... The Zaria Experience" written by Prof. Adeyemi. Images 2 & 4: Department of Architecture, University of Cross River State, Calabar. Image 6: Door to Prof. Ekundayo Adeyemi's office at the department of architecture, UNICROSS. Rest on Prof. Ekundayo Adeyemi (27 February 1937 – 25 January 2022). #profekundayoadeyemi #architectureinafrica #architectureschool #curatorialresearch #curatorials #archive #yení (at CROSS-RIVER STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY,(CRUTECH),CALABAR) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2xTi1smJD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=