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Architect Muyiwa Oki has been elected to become the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Oki will serve as RIBA president from 1 September 2022 until September 2025 and will take over from the current president Simon Allford. He will become the institution’s first Black president and its youngest. The architect, who is currently employed

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Doreen Adengo, founder of Ugandan architecture firm Adengo Architecture, has passed away following a long-term illness at the age of 45. Adengo, who founded her studio Adengo Architecture in 2005, died on 22 July. Her best-known projects include a cluster of single-storey buildings called Bujuuko Schools and the L-Building, a mixed-use building in central Uganda. “Pillar of the

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The Maldives has partnered with architecture studio Waterstudio to create a brain-shaped floating city that will house 20,000 people in a lagoon near the country’s capital. Called Maldives Floating City, the development will contain 5,000 low-rise floating homes floating within a 200-hectare lagoon in the Indian Ocean. As sea levels rise, so too will the city,

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