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05/02/2023

“When I’m here, I paint whenever I feel like it,” the trailblazing portraitist says of the home he renovated with the help of Billy Omabegho

12/04/2022

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré uses local materials and an eye for traditional practices to push the global boundaries of sustainability.

27/12/2021

Eight years after the legal battle involving Nigerian Association of draughtsmen, Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) and Ogun State Government, the Court of Appeal...

07/11/2021

Lagos is often referred to as the commercial nerve centre of the country, rightly so because of the sheer volume of commerce taking place daily in the bustling city. In like manner

16/08/2021

The Lagos State Government has introduced modular building systems such as containerised material in its public schools, which will serve as a faster way of delivering classroom infrastructure.

12/05/2021

Art Gensler Jr. — co-founder of the architecture firm that bears his name — passed away at his home in Mill Valley, Calif., on Monday.

16/04/2021

28/11/2020

02/10/2020

The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has replaced Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater glazing with low-iron glass by Vitro.

29/08/2020

A hot topic among designers across the world is how hospitality will overcome the new challenges hotels face in the time of COVID-19. Here, some of the top architects in hospitality share their thoughts on how hotel design may evolve going forward.

25/08/2020

This is interesting. We’ve always thought the climate of our interior spaces have been over controlled which is contrary to our craving for the outdoor life to promote a healthy habit.
Natural lighting and ventilation (rather than a highly dependent HVAC space) has always been a strong feature of design in the tropics. Will the advent of COVID-19 bring a design shift?

Home is now a “quarantine sanctuary.” Here’s how to incorporate the new norms

06/07/2020

Nigeria is a place we lobby a lot. Anybody can wake up to call himself a medical doctor or an architect. We don’t bother asking questions. If you wake up today as a journalist and say, you’re an architect, nobody will ask you any question.