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Originally housing for Nigeria’s upper class, these homes have become overcrowded tenements, often in disrepair. Could the architectural style still offer lessons to a rapidly urbanizing city? With new office towers, shopping malls and even entire neighborhoods sprouting up to accommodate a growing population,...
It is a project of profound hope, a project of high expectations. It is a project in which the people and government of Lagos State are well pleased. It is the Grand Panorama project. According to the CCECC, the promoters of...
Working with Stage Six and Échale International, Marc Thorpe Design developed a plan for sustainable, ecologically responsible housing in Uganda. The nation is short on 2.1 million housing units, a number that is growing by 200,000 units a year. The collaboration aims...
Rafe Bertram, sustainability lead at Meridian Water, Enfield’s 25-year, £6 billion regeneration project, spoke about sustainable development on projects large and small at a recent AJ event at Roca’s London Gallery Bertram opened his talk by describing six scales for...
Cities looking to boost density and affordability should look to the work of architect Louis Sauer, who designed stylish modernist housing in the 1960s and ’70s. To an onlooker, population density can be counterintuitive. The thumbnail image for American density will always be...
The Master Plan for Ilorin, Kwara State capital, will be unveiled on Wednesday, May 11, at the state’s Banquet Hall, Ilorin, the Chairman, Working Committee on the Master Plan, Shittu AbdulMutalib, had said. According to him, the modeling, which would...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Chinese multinational construction and engineering company, CITIC, have launched a $300 million investment platform – CITIC Construction (Africa) Holding Limited – to provide affordable housing in some African countries. The platform will partner developers...
LandWey Investment, developers of the Isimi Lagos project on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, unveiled its 2030 Masterplan as it commences massive infrastructural project that will turn 305 acres of land and a string of sites on the North side...
By Diana Mosher Designers and developers foretell the forces that are most likely to drive multifamily activity in 2020. With the darkest days of COVID behind us, apartment investors have reason to be optimistic. READ THE DIGEST According to a study commissioned by the...
With global temperatures soaring as a result of high levels of carbon emissions from industrial and other sources, the world, right now, is facing an environmental emergency of unparalleled magnitude. At a time of crisis, it is increasingly understood...
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