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Rebranding a European fabric manufacturer into an African fashion icon? Designing a flagship store and dress it up in Africa?
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Rebranding a European fabric manufacturer into an African fashion icon? Designing a flagship store and dress it up in Africa?
Design of a stylish new 3 storey contemporary hotel with approximately 30 bedrooms on a 2Acre Site to an approximate budget of £250,000 to include plans elevations and basic sections to scale (full details to be confirmed with yourself).
In Africa, two things are perennial: the passion for football and the thirst for water. Children and youth across the continent scramble over scraps of open ground, making soccer balls from anything on hand.
A keenly awaited £200,000 school extension is now visibly taking shape in Burkina Faso in West Africa, unaffected by the civil war currently waging in neighbouring Mali.
The School’s seven buildings house nine classrooms and a library on a sloping site. Unique settings for education have been created to occur within a mix of interior rooms, exterior teaching areas – some of which are covered by sloping roofs – and terraced play spaces for children.
Knowledge Communities Africa -built environment charity Article 25 is joining forces with the Royal Institute of British Architects: relief architecture
The Master plan project seeks to relocate and integrate the four institutions into one, to make a new, fully integrated University of The Gambia for 15.000 students. The project was initiated by the President of The Gambia.
The existing stadium, which was first constructed in 1987, consisted of a playing field surrounded by embankment seating, 2 levels of corporate hospitality suites, and an elevated seating tier on the western side only.
The existing structural concrete profile of the two suite levels and upper tier are extended all round to encircle the pitch. The existing lower embankment is rebuilt in insitu off-shutter concrete to vastly improve the view lines and comfort of the most popular seats in the house.
The Melaku Center will be new center of learning, working and projection for the inhabitants of Mek’ele, capital of the Tigray, a region of the north of Ethiopia.
The site for the Gota Dam property lies in an estate on agricultural farmland in East Africa. The building is situated atop a granite rock overlooking the human-made Gota Dam.
The UK’s leading built environment charity have designed a Masterplan which will lay the building blocks for sustainable and lasting peace in Sierra Leone’s war-ravaged Gola Forest.
One of the least reported or understood conflicts of our age has run out of steam as thousands of former child soldiers of North Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army are looking for reintegration into society.
The issue of safer buildings for communities affected by natural disasters is growing. Climate Change indicators show a trend towards greater frequency and impact of these disasters
A severely under developed country, the DRC has been ravaged by war and lacks infrastructure. Women face high levels of gender-based violence and young men are co-opted by rebel groups that spread conflict and insecurity across the nation
Congo School Buildings – breaking ground at 3000 metres. Rebuilding schools using Climate Responsive Design in the high plateau region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Foster + Partners has unveiled a model for the design of a school in Sierra Leone at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition in London