Berlin studio Kéré Architecture has used compacted-earth blocks to create a headquarters for the non-profit Goethe-Institut in Dakar, Senegal .

Set next door to the Musée Léopold Sédar Senghore, which is dedicated to former Senegal president Leopold Sedar Senghor, the two-storey building was largely built from perforated bricks.

It was created as the first permanent building commissioned by the Goethe-Institut, a German teaching and cultural organisation.

Kéré Architecture has completed the Goethe-Institut in Dakar

"My first building was a school," said Kéré Architecture founder Diébédo Francis Kéré . "I have always understood that where people come to learn, they also come to meet, and where people meet is where culture is made."

"The Goethe-Institut exists to create spaces that facilitate meeting and learning across the world.…