Henry KIRUNGI

He won it all. 👏

Somewhere in Accra, Ghana Photographed by @EfuaIsEnuf

Speargrass House by Sumich Chaplin Architects Queenstown, New Zealand 🇳🇿

Swahili Gem Apartments by Urko Sanchez Architects in Mombasa, Kenya 🇰🇪

🌿 The Arc at Green School by IBUKU Studio | Bali, Indonesia

Hacienda Santa Bárbara 107 by Cuartopiso and Barragán Arquitectos Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico 🇲🇽

La Petite Afrique Building by Isay Weinfeld Monte Carlo, Monaco 🇲🇨

Most buildings in hot climates are fighting heat after it enters. The best buildings stop it before it gets in. 7 shading strategies that make modern spaces feel cooler, calmer, and more breathable: 🧵

La liste des 28 Lions, choisis parmi des millions de Sénégalais, investis de l’honneur suprême de défendre nos couleurs sur la plus grande scène du football mondial : la Coupe du Monde. #FIFAWC2026 #ListeGaindeyi #DemBaJeex

Brick is what Africa walks on every day and refuses to build with seriously. China just used it to rescue an ageing university building and turn it into the most visited space on campus. The Yuanbo Building in Zhuhai was a cluster of 15 disconnected concrete cubes sitting at the centre of a university, rundown and largely ignored. THAD renovated it without demolishing a single block. A continuous loop of stairs and corridors now threads through the rooftops, courtyards, and indoor spaces, one unbroken circuit that turned isolation into movement. The rooftop equipment yards became running tracks. The dark entrance atrium got a glass roof. An outdoor stage was carved around an existing tree that the drawings had not even recorded. The facade holding all of this together is dry-hung brick, fired clay managing heat, controlling light, and giving the building a skin that belongs to its climate. Where brick reaches its limit, other materials take over with precision. Glass rooflights pull daylight into spaces that could not otherwise breathe. Steel casings project the windows outward, cutting direct sun before it enters the classroom. Timber marks the roofline. Each material is doing exactly the job it is qualified for and nothing more. This is the point Africa is missing. Not just that brick works, but that knowing when brick stops and another material begins is what craftsmanship actually is. We are skipping that entire education. Leapfrogging clay, laterite, and fired earth, materials we have not mastered and barely respect—to reach for glass facades and imported cladding systems we have no technical culture around whatsoever. We are borrowing the finish before we have learned the foundation. Yuanbo Building, Zhuhai, China 🇨🇳 | THAD — Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University | 13,762m² | 2021 | 📷 Wu Qingshan

Elliptical load bearing shells laid without full shuttering by craftsman with generational knowledge of the form Brick community center at Sahyadri forest

Are you building a Home or a House? ' The ultimate goal of the architect is to create a paradise. Every home, every product of architecture should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people. '

Ancient African art being revived.

Evolution of the Indian automotive industry in one frame 😀

I will never understand how this didn’t become our national jersey! We are suffering peak embarrassment at a continental level yet we have gifted creatives!

Honored to receive the Service to @iuea_uganda Community Award 2025. 
Grateful for a journey built on leadership, impact, and service above self.

@aine_kevin Thank you Kevin

@hmark410 I am so proud of you.

Graduate Architect 🎓 Graduating after years of faith, resilience, design, and discipline. Architecture taught me to create, to question, and to turn ideas into reality. This is a reminder that dreams are valid and take shape with work.
 Let’s design together.

@TrevaPol_UG Amen

@hmark410 Well done Sir, excited for your greatness loading.

@BobKellyL Thanks man

@hmark410 Congratulations sir 🫡