Tony Mbae

A two bedroom wooden cottage/farmhouse concept for our Kajiado client.She wanted a simple & sustainable space for weekending in her countryside farm.

Workflow👷🏗️🏢 Building the nation block by block

Are you aware that East African Airways was drowning in debt, along with several other defunct EAC agencies? Do you actually know how those liabilities were settled, considering Tanzania’s economy was in the doldrums under Ujamaa and Uganda was fighting a civil war? ​EAA was essentially insolvent by the time it was grounded. While you choose to frame Kenya’s decision to form Kenya Airways as a betrayal, the reality was a financial stalemate where Kenya was the only partner actually capable of paying the bills. Expecting Kenya to indefinitely subsidise partners who were either at war or undergoing radical economic experiments was emotional blackmail then, and it is clearly symptomatic of the relationship we still have today.

Progress, First Floor Walling ⏳

Progress Update First Floor Suspended Slab Casted Successfully Happy Easter Holidays! #Wip

A school in Kenya that harvests over 2 million liters of rainwater every year. The roof is the water system. The stadium seats 1,500 and collects 1.5 million liters on its own. Classrooms face inward toward agriculture courtyards where students grow their own food. Girls who spent hours fetching water now attend school. Attendance hit 95%. This is what architecture looks like when it solves the actual problem. 📍 Waterbank Secondary School Campus, Laikipia, Kenya Architect: PITCHAfrica Sponsored by the Samuel Eto’o Foundation

This thread is about how Kenya got to start talking about getting nuclear energy. This is also a direct reply to Ferdinand Omondi who has been peddling misinformation about nuclear energy. x.com/FerdyOmondi/st…

@Limo_kipkemoi @aak_arch 👏 Congrats

Yesterday at @aak_arch Awards of excellence, we bagged two awards for our submission of Lodwar Level 5B hospital design. Hongera to all the architects who won in various categories

Unexpected forms of generosity: •Being early can be a form of generosity. You wait, so they don't have to. •Leaving something unsaid can be a form of generosity. You don't always need the last word. •Delivering your work on time can be a form of generosity. You make life easier for everyone downstream. •Not taking things personally can be a form of generosity. You give people the space to say things imperfectly." @JamesClear

Congrats to everyone getting their wins today, to the new built environment inductees, let's build in quality & raise the Standards 📐🛠️🏗️

Ground Floor Walling done! Up next, column formwork & casting #Wip

@Limo_kipkemoi Indeed, seen plenty of them in Sigomere but not widely adopted

These stones are available around Siaya. My attempt to use in a project was painful. There was only one guy who digs it, and he works when he feels like. I hope to see such works in Kenya/Nyanza

Laterite. Cut from the earth, stacked, left exposed. No plaster. No paint. No finish. The wall IS the architecture. Kerala has built with it for centuries; it hardens on air exposure, gets stronger the longer it stands. 📍 Kannur, Kerala 🇮🇳 Architects: Elemental

Dubai has spent $47.6 billion on roads and transport in the last 20 years. That's the short answer. The longer answer is about excellent execution: 25,000+ lane-kilometers of road, 3.5 million vehicles on them every day, and a fleet of 752 cleaning vehicles running around the clock. 35 of those are dedicated highway sweepers. On windy days, sand piling up on roads triggers up to 20 emergency calls a day just to clear it. And it never stays clean. Sandstorm season runs from June to September. In April 2022, a wall of sand hit the city at 80 km/h, causing 14 major pile-ups on Sheikh Zayed Road, delaying 300+ flights, and turning the Burj Khalifa into a red blur for hours. Then it all had to be cleaned again. Every drop of water used to wash those roads is manufactured. 99.5% of Dubai's water comes from desalinated seawater. The Jebel Ali plant, the world's largest, processes 2.2 million cubic meters a day. People in the Gulf states use about 560 liters of water per person per day. The global average is 180. None of it falls from the sky. It's pumped from the Persian Gulf, filtered through massive plants, and piped across the city. The workforce doing this is almost entirely migrant labor. Foreign workers make up 96% of Dubai's private sector, with workers from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka accounting for 90% of the total. Every Dubai resident pays a 5% fee on their annual rent through their electricity bill, which partly funds street cleaning. Dubai's 2026 budget hit a record $27.1 billion. 48% of that goes to infrastructure: roads, bridges, tunnels, waste management. The three-year plan for 2026-2028 totals $82 billion. Clean desert roads aren't magic. They're 752 machines running nonstop, ocean water turned drinkable, millions of migrant workers, and a $27 billion budget fighting the sand every day.

The persistent failure of the relevant government agencies to address on Nairobi's drainage issues every damn year is another level of minding their own business @NairobiCityGov @NDOCKenya

There is the Architects Bill of 2026 before the National Assembly. The Bill proposes: · To establish the Institute of Architects with the HQ domiciled in Nairobi. The Institute will establish, publish & monitor the standards of professional competence & architectural practice in Kenya · To establish the Architects Examination Board of Kenya which will prescribe & regulate the syllabus of instruction for architects' professional examinations in Kenya · To establish the Architects Registration Committee which will receive applications for registration & grant practicing certificates in accordance with the provisions of the Act · A person shall be eligible for registration as an Architect in Kenya if they are a graduate architect & have obtained practical experience as prescribed under the Act; has passed a professional assessment examination conducted by the Architects Examination Board & is a full member of the Institute · A person shall be eligible for registration as an Architectural Technician in Kenya if that person holds a diploma in Architecture or Architectural Technology & has obtained practical experience as prescribed under the Act; has passed a professional assessment examination conducted by the Architects Examination Board · That no person shall practice as a registered architect or an architectural technician unless the person has been issued with a valid practicing certificate · Application shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee, not exceeding Kes 10,000 · A practicing certificate shall be valid for one year from the 1st of January to the 31st of December The Bill is sponsored by Bumula Member of Parliament, Wamboka Wanami

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Superstructure Walling coming up Nicely 🧱📐

Progress Update SubStructure Works done! #WIP

@ghidyson Slightly, but as you approach the gilgil weigh bridge the traffic is packed esp Naivasha to Nakuru lane

@Tony_Mbae Has it improved?

Gilgil's stretch towards Naivasha is a whole parking lot. Been stuck here since 3.30am

@ediewines damn, no signs of it improving

@Tony_Mbae We found it packed by midnight