Two exhibitions opening this autumn at RIBA North and Tate Liverpool will examine contrasting aspects of architectural history, with one focusing on the design of football stadiums and the other on colonial-era planning in West Africa.

Opening first, on 4 September, Hill Station: Architecture and the Altitudes of Empire explores the development of a segregated residential enclave constructed in the early 20th century on high ground above Freetown, Sierra Leone. The exhibition traces the origins of the site to an 1899 expedition by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, which recommended housing Europeans away from the city centre to reduce the risk of malaria transmission.

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