Your Vision Brought to Life
Women make up 3% of Kenya's accredited construction workforce. That figure comes from the National Construction Authority. It is not a rounding error. It is a structural reality — one that has persisted in an industry worth over KES 1 trillion and gro ...
A client came to me partway through their coastal build with a suggestion. They had found taps at a hardware store in Nairobi. Good brand, reasonable price, solid finish. They wanted to buy them directly and save the markup. It made sense to them — th ...
When Mariam Issoufou was six years old, her family moved from Niamey to Agadez — an ancient city on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Niger. She remembers coming home from school in the blazing heat and stepping into the mud vestibule of their house. T ...
Before Bondo, I had worked on big projects. JKIA. Two Rivers Mall. Projects at a scale that most junior architects don't get near for the first several years of their careers. I had been handed responsibility early, and I had handled it. By the time t ...
Drive through any Kenyan city and play a game. Count the buildings that look genuinely different from one another. Not different in colour or in the number of floors — different in the way they relate to the land they sit on, the climate around them, ...
Kenya needs 250,000 new housing units a year. We build about 50,000. That gap has been growing for years and nobody is closing it anytime soon — not at the rate things are going. I bring this up because most people respond to that housing pressure the ...
I have been thinking about a question I cannot fully answer. When I specify materials for a coastal project — a house in Malindi, a commercial build near the shore — I am always managing two pressures at once. What I know will perform in that climate. ...
Material costs are going up. According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, the Construction Input Price Index rose from 119.05 in Q1 2025 to 119.75 in Q2 2025. Cement was up 2.63%. Steel and reinforcement bars up 1.52%. Concrete and asphalts u ...
Kenya's construction market is projected to reach KES 1.02 trillion in 2025. That is a significant number. Cement production is up 13.9% in the first quarter of this year. The government has committed KES 193 billion to infrastructure. The affordable ...
There is a question I ask myself on every project. Not what does the client want. Not what will this look like in photographs. The question is simpler and more demanding than either of those: what does this place need? The site. The climate. The co ...