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We speak to Nicholas Fox Weber, director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation & founder of Le Korsa, about the new Bët-bi museum in Senegal

Tambacounda does not seem like a place to build a new hospital and maternity ward without air conditioning, one that serves 40,000 people

Completed in 2021 in Tambacounda, Senegal. Images by Iwan Baan. Background. The Tambacounda Maternity and Paediatric hospital builds upon 15 years of extraordinary work in rural eastern Senegal by the Albers...

Manuel Herz’s Tambacounda Hospital in Senegal is rooted in community Manuel Herz’s Tambacounda Hospital in Senegal is rooted in community A brick extension to the Tambacounda hospital in Senegal by Switzerland-based architect Manuel Herz is a true project of collaboration, rooted to the local community  All images courtesy of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and Le Korsa This new extension to the Tambacounda hospital in Senegal is ostensibly by the Switzerland-based architect Manuel Herz. Yet such is the depth of the building’s roots in the local community – from labour to proces...

© Iwan Baan It was in this spirit that in 2005 Nicholas Fox Weber, the Director of the Foundation, established Le Korsa to encompass the philanthropic initiatives of the Foundation in the region. Since then the Foundation and Le Korsa have provided support to rural Senegalese communities across the fields of culture, education and health. In 2015 they launched THREAD, a cultural centre for local inhabitants of the rural village of Sinthian designed pro bono by architecture firm Toshiko Mori, which since its establishment has fostered cultural exchange between local communities and internatio...