Salam Centre Sudan: Surgery Building

Salam Cardiac Surgery Centre Sudan

The Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery consists of a hospital with 63 beds and 300 local staff, with a separate Medical Staff Accommodation Compound sleeping 150 people.

Jabi Lake Nigerian Masterplan: Studio Seilern

Jabi Lake Nigerian Masterplan design

The creation of a waterfront park: Which varies in size and activities according to the functions it fronts. Rather than a waterfront promenade, the waterfront park aims to create a truly vibrant public space by including specific activities and happenings through its length.

Beauséjour ZAC La Réunion Development

Beauséjour ZAC La Réunion buildings design

The urban development plan for Beauséjour, on the Sainte-Marie town in La Réunion, aims to meet a tremendous challenge. It consists in taking an outstanding 80 ha site of sugar cane fields

WATERBANK School: Kenya Education Building

WATERBANK School: Kenya education building site in Africa

An innovative school designed to ease water shortages in a semi-arid region of East Africa is to open later this month. The WATERBANK™ School, conceived and designed by US based non-profit PITCHAfrica, demonstrates the dramatic potential of rainwater harvesting in semi-arid regions and aims to put an end to Water Wars.

Chinzombo Zambia, Africa: Luangwa Bush Camp

Chinzombo Zambia Africa Luangwa Bush Camp

Scheduled to open in March 2013, the Chinzombo camp is being designed by acclaimed architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens, the visionaries behind North Island in the Seychelles and Little Vumbura Camp, an eco-luxe lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

C Spot Angola Building Design

C Spot Angola Building Design

Given the opportunity to be engaged in a project with high social concerns, the C Spot comes as a reflex of a sustainable mission where the developer contributes to reduce levels of illiteracy by awarding the communities where they build roads, and viaducts, and bridges with a Spot, which is more than a school, but actually a space that foments social elevations through education.

Addis Ababa Stadium: Ethiopian Building

Addis Ababa Stadium Ethiopian sports building

Football and athletics-loving Ethiopians will have a new FIFA and Olympic-standard 60,000 seat stadium in Addis Ababa thanks to a competition winning design combining local identity with new technology.

Heritage Place Lagos: Nigerian Building

Heritage Place Lagos building design

Capita Symonds has unveiled plans for a major new office development in Lagos, Nigeria. The Heritage Place scheme will be a landmark within Lagos combining striking façade design and top-end office space.

Village Health Works Kigutu: Burundi Building

Village Health Works, Kigutu: Burundi Building, Africa

Merging architecture and landscape, the design of the 20 bed Staff Residence for Village Health Works in Kigutu, Burundi is a romance between east African elemental aesthetics and inventive off-the grid sustainability.

Burkina Faso secondary schools, Africa buildings

Burkina Faso Secondary Schools, Buildings in Africa

This month we submitted our Stage D design report for a Prototype School building in Burkina Faso to our local partner AEAD. Burkina Faso is one of the least developed countries in the world, with the UN Development Program Report ranking the country as having the lowest level of literacy in the world.