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Kamwokya Community Centre
Photograph: JAIME HERRAIZ/Kéré Architecture
  • Gando Primary School
    Photograph: Enrico Cano/Kéré Architecture
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    Diébédo Francis Kéré completed this school in his hometown of Gando, Burkina Faso, in 2001, with help from the local community. The bricks were made on site from local clay mixed with concrete.
  • Interior of Gando Primary School
    Photograph: Enrico Cano/Kéré Architecture
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    An interior view of the school in Gando.
  • Kamwokya Community Centre
    Photograph: JAIME HERRAIZ/Kéré Architecture
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    The Kamwokya Community Centre, completed in 2022, is located in one of the poorest areas of Uganda’s capital, Kampala.
  • Kamwokya Community Centre
    Photograph: JAIME HERRAIZ/Kéré Architecture
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    The site's buildings are on a drainage platform designed to offer protection from flooding during heavy rains, and feature raised “butterfly roofs” to allow air flow.
  • The Startup Lions campus in Lake Turkana Kenya completed in 2021 provides tech skills training and has a design inspired...
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    The Startup Lions campus in Lake Turkana, Kenya, completed in 2021, provides tech skills training and has a design inspired by the natural ventilation system of termite mounds.
  • Startup Lions Campus exterior staircase
    Photograph: Kinan-Deeb/Kéré Architecture
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    The building's two levels follow the natural curve of the land. Roof terraces have creeping vegetation for shade.
  • Benin National Assembly
    Render: Kéré Architecture
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    The Benin National Assembly, currently under construction, will replace an existing building that is too small and dates from the country's colonial past.
  • Benin National Assembly
    Render: Kéré Architecture
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    The building's design was inspired by the West African tradition of meeting under a tree to make community decisions.
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