Austin-Smith:Lord have shared with us their entry to the international competition for the Nairobi Greater Metropolitan Region. In January 2010, the UK-based firm together with its Kenyan partners Saad Yahya & Associates and engineering firm Mott Macdonald were shortlisted along with 5 others to develop a concept for…

Click above image to enlarge Henning Larsen Architects has won third place in the competition for the ’Nairobi Greater Metropolitan Region’ together with the Niras Consultants and the local partner ETC.

A community organization founded by young people in Nairobi’s slums has won the ONE Africa Award, an annual prize given by the global anti-poverty group to honor ground-breaking work by African non-governmental organizations. SIDAREC (the Slums Information Development and Resources Centres) have been awarded…