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Tosin Dada Studios Rejuvenates Egbeda Community Centre, Nigeria

A derelict structure in the Egbeda community in Nigeria was left strewn of its architectural dignity by time. The client got a desire to give it a new life and out of that need, the formerly dilapidated structure now shines a lot of hope and life in the site where it once stood forgotten. Now,

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