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Authorities crack down on illegal settlements in Ugandan capital
Uganda’s capital city has been in the news this week as pressure mounts over the inactivity of a proposed planning authority. The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) was formed in March 2011 with the objective to oversee the operations of the city and it was proposed that the neighbouring districts of Mukono, Wakiso and Mpigi would be enveloped into the Kampala Metropolitan Area.
Over the last few days, journalists and urban specialists have been speaking out about their concerns for the future of Kampala, drawing attention to the many residential settlements that have sprung up on the outskirts of the city, lining the roads with illegal (and largely unsanitary) dwellings. Shortly after these reports were published, the KCCA released an ambitious masterplan to come into practice in late......more
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Live Work Home
Beautiful small scale project by Cook + Fox Architects awarded LEED-NC Platinum: Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s words ‘Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one......more
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Gough opens Pandora's box
CZWG's shimmering Canada Water Library completes in Borough of Southwark: This latest offering from CZWG Partner and WAN judge Piers Gough is a perforated aluminium-clad library building on London’s Canada Water. An upturned pyramid, the......more
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Keeping options open
French architects ECDM release two designs for assimilation into Grand Paris waterfront: Building bold in such an illustrious cityscape as Paris, without causing detriment to the surrounding vision, is no doubt a daunting task, but one that French......more
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Best of three...
schmidt hammer lassen reveals stunning series of commercial volumes in Warsaw: A series of interlocking rectangular volumes have been presented by Danish design studio schmidt hammer lassen architects for a striking 188m-high commercial......more
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Russian Constructivism's former glory
Exhibition at London's Royal Academy reveals architecture's role in creating the Soviet Socialist state: Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum, an austere, angular mass of grey and blood red in Moscow's Red Square, was originally built from wood by architect......more
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The power of five
Moshe Safdie's Khalsa Heritage Centre opens today in Anandpur Sahib: Today the Honorable Chief Minister of Punjab, Sardar Parkash Singh Badal will officially dedicate Moshe Safdie’s latest completed building - the Khalsa Heritage Centre (KHC) in......more
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