The Sapiens Building answers its program and a challenging situation. Its polyhedral abstraction guarantees formal consistency and the galleries dramatize light and shadow, allowing the views, delivering an elegant vibration and denouncing the rationalization of the educational program. It is intense in its presence and generous in its public delivery.

Currently the approach towards the provision of housing at the mines is a conventional one (formal built housing). The problem is that 90% of the workers are migrant. Once the mine close, then the people re-locate to their place of origin. We therefore developed a mobile property.

The Mauritius Commercial Bank Building is important to World Architecture as being the first to be an ellipse in section and elevation. It is also the first building to have a BREEAM certificate in the southern hemisphere, placing Africa ahead of the South American and Australasian continents.

Bamboo House Completed : 2012 Location : Illashe, Lagos. Our vision for this beach house was rooted in its context and the experimentation of locally sourced materials, to design a modern building that would be reflective of our culture, acknowledges modernity, contemporary design,and belongs to the locality.

“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Nelson Mandela. The brief was to provide a world-class paediatric facility that would create an environment that was welcoming, playful and family-orientated, providing quality child healthcare in a natural healing environment.

BRITAM tower is a thirty storey 30,000sqm multi-tenanted development in Upper Hill, Nairobi. A 1200sqm square floor plate at ground level rotates through 45 degrees to exactly half at the penthouse. The glazed curtain wall is screened from solar radiation by a 'veil' of ceramic rods.

The University of Johannesburg strives to ‘inspire its community to transform and serve humanity through innovation and the collaborative pursuit of knowledge’. The new auditoria personify these principles in built form; the existing Brutalist monoliths connecting to previous institutions, the new expressing dynamic transformation and progress.

How to use local material for a house in a contemporary way. The lack of local building equipment coupled to a tight budget, guided us towards a simple but modern home. The building’s orientation provide natural ventilation, meeting our goal to produce a house with zero energy requirement

The architecture acts as an extension to the rocky hillside, with the occupants seemingly inhabiting a mountain face. The home is firmly rooted to the hillside through some impressive engineering, while also protruding out of the hillside as if it were shaped and morphed over time into its current condition.