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  • Atkins reveals design for Nairobi Central Station informed by defensive enclosures

    International studio Atkins is set to renovate the central station in Nairobi, Kenya, adding canopies that were informed by central African Boma enclosures. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 28 July 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Cave Bureau proposes "a new kind of infrastructure for the first inhabitants of the city"

    Maasai people could once again legally herd their cattle through Nairobi via Cow Corridors proposed by Cave Bureau in this manifesto prepared for the Dezeen 15 digital festival. More

    Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi | 4 November 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Termite mounds inform Kéré Architecture's design of Kenyan education campus

    Terracotta-hued towers that reference termite mounds distinguish the Startup Lions Campus, which Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré's studio has completed in Kenya. More

    Lizzie Crook | 30 June 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Loon launches floating balloon-powered internet service in Kenya

    Google's sister company Loon is deploying a fleet of 35 solar-powered balloons that will provide internet service across more remote areas of Kenya by floating on stratospheric winds. More

    Natashah Hitti | 9 July 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Studio Libeskind's Ngaren museum to track human evolution in Kenyan landscape

    Daniel Libeskind's New York architecture firm has revealed plans to build a museum in Kenya's Rift Valley, comprising tapered and pointed structures that resemble stalagmites. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 13 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Okana Centre for Change is a bamboo centre for a rural Kenyan community

    TU Delft students Laura Katharina Strähle and Ellen Rouwendal designed this community centre in the rural community of Okana, close to Lake Victoria in Kenya, which was named Small Building of the Year at Dezeen Awards. More

    Jon Astbury | 29 December 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Project Circleg uses recycled plastic to build low-cost prosthetics in Kenya

    Two Zurich-based graduates have created a low cost lower-limb prosthetic made of recycled plastic waste that is collected and processed in local factories in Kenya. More

    Katie de Klee | 21 December 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Dyed concrete walls surround Swiss embassy in Nairobi by Roeoesli Maeder Architekten

    Swiss studio Roeoesli Maeder Architekten has built anembassy for Switzerland in Nairobi, Kenya, as an extension of the dyed concrete boundary wall that surrounds the compound. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 10 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Will Alsop's only African project to be fun-filled shopping centre in Nairobi

    The late Will Alsop's studio All Design, has designed a shopping centre in Nairobi, Kenya, will feature a monorail with "jellybean" carriages and a "piano staircase". More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 10 July 2018
  • White latticed screens encase apartment block in Kenya by Urko Sanchez Architects

    White mashrabiya-style screens cover these apartments in Mombasa, Kenya, which Nairobi-based Urko Sanchez Architects designed to provide residents with privacy but also views out to sea. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 2 September 2017 | 1 comment
  • Richard Keep and Henry Goss unveil plans for Nairobi tower in rainy renderings

    These foggy renderings by The Boundary forego the stereotypical blue-sky backdrop to depict a wedge-shaped tower by Richard Keep Architects and Henry Goss Architects, which has just been granted planning permission in Nairobi, Kenya. More

    Jessica Mairs | 11 June 2017 | 25 comments
  • Huge inclined roof spans cathedral built by John McAslan + Partners on Kenyan tea plantation

    John McAslan + Partners and Triad Architects have built a cathedral on the edge of a tea plantation outside Nairobi, Kenya, featuring a tiled and angled roof lined with wooden slats. More

    Jessica Mairs | 24 March 2017 | 6 comments
  • Selgascano-designed pavilion transformed into school for Kenya's Kibera slum

    A colourful pavilion designed by Spanish architect duo Selgascano has been shipped from a Copenhagen art museum to Africa's largest slum, where it now serves as a school for 600 orphaned children. More

    Amy Frearson | 5 January 2017 | 7 comments
  • SelgasCano's Louisiana Pavilion to be reused as a school in Kenya's Kibera slum

    A pavilion designed by architects SelgasCano and Helloeverything for a Copenhagen art museum is being transported to a Nairobi slum, where it will serve as a school for 600 pupils. More

    Marcus Fairs | 11 February 2016 | 2 comments
  • Hewn limestone walls and an overhanging roof enclose a hillside home in Nairobi

    Jonathan Woolf Architects used chiselled limestone to construct this family home near Nairobi, which is built into a hillside and topped by a heavy sloping roof (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 6 March 2015 | 5 comments
  • Konza Techno City masterplan by SHoP Architects

    Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects has sent us a movie and more images illustrating its masterplan for Konza Techno City, a new "silicon" city 40 miles from Kenya's capital Nairobi (+ movie). More

    Emilie Chalcraft | 31 January 2013 | 14 comments
  • Kenyan silicon city under construction

    News: the Kenyan government has commenced work on Konza Technology City, a £9.1 billion IT and business hub dubbed "Africa's Silicon Savannah". More

    Emilie Chalcraft | 24 January 2013 | 15 comments

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