Cooperative Block O Lar do Namibe

Lobito [Lubito, Olupitu], Benguela, Angola

Housing

Of portentious size and modernist style, this decisively contributed to an urbanistic definition of the scale and shape of the Square José Samuel (former Terreiro do Pó) according to the city’s urbanization plan. It was designed by Castro Rodrigues in the 1960s.

• José Manuel Fernandes