A thunderstorm raged in the background as I spoke to the architect Sumayya Vally over the phone from her hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa. Luckily, the 30-year-old architect knows how to weather ...

Her intention was to create a design with "a diasporic logic", reflecting the nature of Notting Hill Carnival as a place of gathering for London's Afro-Caribbean community. This led her to design the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Looking at each individual project by Sumayya Vally, it’s hard to pinpoint a ‘signature’ look or ...

Sumayya Vally: I’m interested in finding form in overlooked things. In Joburg, where I live, the dumps were used to segregate the races during apartheid—non-white people lived to the south of them, in ...

Changemaker, Pioneer, and One to watch. These would all be fair descriptions of South African architect Sumayya Vally who is presently organising the world’s first Islamic Arts Biennale in Saudi ...

After a year’s delay, London’s Serpentine Galleries have unveiled the latest iteration of the summer architectural pavilion. Designed by up-and-coming architecture studio Counterspace, which is led by ...

Sumayya Vally, the founder of South African architecture studio Counterspace, has been named on the Time100 Next list of people "poised to make history". Vally, who is designing this year's Serpentine ...

Syn Architects at the Islamic Arts Biennale. Image © Laurian Ghinițoiu ArchDaily (Christele Harrouk): How can "Architecture work with" as opposed to for? In other ...

The bars, cafes, bookshops and even hair salons of London all fed into this year’s enormous pavilion. Sumayya Vally, the project’s youngest ever architect, explains all Fragments of fluted classical ...

Looking at each individual project by Sumayya Vally, it’s hard to pinpoint a ‘signature’ look or subject. There are installations, film and sound pieces, projects around food, community-focused ...