In this insightful article, award winning real-estate economist Tayo Odunsi, discusses the importance of aesthetics in the design of affordable housing developments (which are notorious for being unsightly).
Mr.Odunsi cites the importance of good de...
Nigerian photographer and visual artist, Ayo Akinwande, recently shared with us exclusive images of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library that was commissioned back in early May as the first presidential library on the African continent.
Mr.Aki...
The (much anticipated) 2017 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Diébédo Francis Kéré (Kéré Architecture), was unveiled yesterday in London.
The Pavilion was designed to consciously fuse cultural references from his home town of Gando Burkina Faso with ...
Contemporist have put together an impressive compilation of inspiring walkways and paths highlighting how they can be used to connect parts of your compound or divide them to create separate, functional areas.
We picked 10 of our favourites from the...
The Bayview Hill Gardens is a peculiar affordable housing development by David Baker Architects which, though located in San Francisco, draws its inspiration from far away Botswana in Africa.
The development is the first of its kind in the San Franc...
Described as "an African way to a new ecology", H2Os is an autonomous eco-house designed around a system of rainwater harvesting, waste water recycling and energy generation.
Though designed by Italian architects, Studio Tamassociati, the H2Os conce...
In a report by Construction Review, from May last month, it was announced that construction work had commenced in Kenya on what will be Africa's tallest building, aptly dubbed, The Pinnacle. This was made known at the foundation laying ceremony, in U...
As a follow-up to our previous introduction, we are happy to announce that LivinSpaces Jobs in now LIVE! and free for employers over the next 3 months.
Employers within the building design and construction industry now have the opportunity to post j...
Block 36 is a concept design for a peculiar housing development located in the raw desert between Cairo-Alexandria desert road and Sheikh Zayed City in West Cairo.
The idea developed by Shahira Fahmy Architects, seeks to intermingle solid and void f...
In this article, originally published on raconteur, freelance journalist Nick Easen looks at the potential of a technological revolution in the construction industry, citing that we may already be on the cusp of it despite some reticence.
He looks a...
