30 Aug The Forest Adventure Centre in Kereita by Sitescape Studio Proves Architecture Can Co-Exist With Nature

Posted at 17:27h in Architecture, Conservation, Culture + Entertainment, Hotels + Restaurants, Public Facilities by Ian Mutuli 0 Comments

The Kenya Forest Service (KFS) sort to rejuvenate the lush and evergreen Kereita forest so that it can self-sustain. As it later would be, the forest, deserted but one of the healthiest in the huge span of the Aberdare Ranges, has come to be known...

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21 Aug St. Jerome Children’s Home, Nakuru: Innovative Timber & Earth Construction by Orkid Studio

Posted at 12:37h in Architecture, Housing by Zahra Abdillahi 0 Comments

Tucked away in the agricultural outskirts of Nakuru Town, Kenya’s third city, is a home housing local disadvantaged and abandoned children, characterised by a variety of social spaces, from open communal areas to quiet hide-outs, offering assorted opportunities for play, study and rest. ©Odysseas Mourtzouchos The centre...

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14 Jun Nairobi to Host The Real Estate Development Summit 2018- East Africa Edition

Posted at 23:40h in General, Press Release by Ian Mutuli 0 Comments

GBB Consulting Services is hosting The Real Estate Development Summit 2018- East Africa Edition that is taking place in Nairobi, Kenya on the 29th June at the Radisson Blu-Upper Hills. The RED Summit-2018 is the ideal format for uniting Regional Institutional Investors, International Fund Managers and...

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14 May Sacred Hearts Cathedral in Kericho, Kenya: Awe-Inspiring Display of Detail and Precision

Posted at 13:04h in Architecture, Church, Religious by Brenda Nyawara 0 Comments

The Sacred Hearts Cathedral in Kericho, Kenya by John McAslan + Partners in collaboration with Triad Architects was mentioned on Archute in an article covering the 2016 Awards of Excellence by the Architectural Association of Kenya. A complete coverage of this marvel was bound to...

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16 Aug Tudor Apartments: A Contemporary Swahili Residential Gem by Urko Sanchez Architects

Posted at 06:00h in Architecture, Residential, Sustainability by Samuel Nguma 2 Comments

Tudor Apartments is a high-rise residential project consisting of 14 intimate apartments in Tudor Creek, Mombasa. Enveloped in a mashrabiya structural shell, the building is distinctive in its creative design – ensuring privacy and optimizing natural ventilation and lighting. © Javier Callejas Urko Sanchez Architects took the...

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23 Feb 2016 Awards of Excellence in Architecture by the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK)

Posted at 09:39h in Architecture, News by Brenda Nyawara 2 Comments

Kenya's architectural profession has continued to transform for the better with excellent projects already done and more earmarked for the future. The Architectural Association of Kenya, in conjunction with Duracoat, has initiated a biennial award scheme aimed at recognizing excellence in architecture for projects designed...

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23 May Mahiga Hope High School Rainwater Court, Nyeri Kenya, by Dick Clark Architecture. Architecture for Humanity

Posted at 16:42h in Sports by Brenda Nyawara 0 Comments

Architecture for humanity. Architecture was made for man. Some projects have such inspiring stories behind them, the end result being a solution to humanitarian problems. This project in Nyeri, Kenya, is among the ones we have noted. Buckle up, this is a wordy one, but...

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08 May Deluxe Complex, Nairobi kenya, by Tamir Addadi, Raphael Cohen: Commercial Architecture at a new level

Posted at 15:16h in Mixed Use Developments by Brenda Nyawara 0 Comments

Some of the projects we post here at Archute are due to both their excellence and their status as a conceptual project (aka, only in some dreamer's mind.) Most of the time, on the other hand, we get a project submitted that’s right along on...

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19 Mar Giraffe Manor: Nairobi, Kenya

Posted at 20:16h in Architecture, Conservation, Hotels + Restaurants by Brenda Nyawara 1 Comment

Giraffe Manor is one of Nairobi’s most iconic buildings: characterful, picturesque, and enveloped in history like the foliage creeping over its brickwork. Set in 12 acres of private land within 140 acres of indigenous forest in the Langata suburb of Nairobi and with verdant green gardens, sunny...

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14 Mar Red Pepper House: A Holiday Gateaway by Urko Sanchez Architects

Posted at 20:59h in Architecture, Hotels + Restaurants, Sustainability by Samuel Nguma 2 Comments

The client, Fernando Torres, wanted a private residence that shared a connection with Lamu but remained secluded from the town itself. The brief was thus generated from the client’s passion for architecture; and his love for being in contact with nature. Combining these two attributes,...

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