Your Vision Brought to Life
I want to start with something that happened before Zaha Hadid built anything. In 1983, she entered a competition for a leisure centre on a hillside in Hong Kong called The Peak. Her design proposed what she called a horizontal skyscraper — a structur ...
There is a power plant in Copenhagen with a ski slope on the roof. Not a gimmick. Not a rendering that never got built. A functioning waste-to-energy facility that converts 440,000 tons of waste annually into electricity and district heating for 150,0 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...