Building a Future
An architect who uses design to improve the lives of the world’s less fortunate,
Kunle Adeyemi creates inspiring site-specific projects for fast-growing cities in developing nations. Concerned about poverty, urbanization, and climate change, the Nigeria-born architect and his Amsterdam-based practice, NLE, are making a difference with their ambitious African Water Cities project. Its components include Makoko Floating School, an elementary school on the lagoon at the heart of Lagos, amid a sprawling slum. Created with community input and regarded as a prototype, the low-cost facility contains classrooms and a 1,000-square-foot play area, and can accommodate 100 students. Another project is Chicoco Radio Media Center, a floating media platform complete with a radio station and recording studios, built by and for a Nigerian community of crumbling waterfront settlements.
— Anita Katz
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