Roughly 500 years old, the castle was established by the Portuguese, initially for the purposes of slave trade. It was…

Today I joined the Raincoat surveying team to see the new developments happening in the North West of Accra region.…

The Raincoat factory director showed me one of his side projects, an office building in Oyarifa area in the Eastern…

This morning I visited a roofing company who supply profiled zinc roofs to most of Ghana, parts of Burkina Faso…

During my first evening in Accra I happened to meet the spokesman of the principal Stool (chief) of Nungua.From a…

Below: I wasn’t quick enough to jump into Uber and he got clamped Below: some context of estate where I’ll…

Today I leave Lagos, Nigeria, where I spent the last two months. Below is a little summary of my thoughts…

 Baale’s son and I took a boat journey to photograph my site from the water. Although the site itself was…

Today I went to make a thorough survey of Prince Ojupon’s site. Partially sandfilled from the neighbouring dredging site (for…

According to K. Whiteman, ‘The island is now a bizarre and dysfunctional mix of the wilderness of skyscrapers, street markets,…

Having confirmed  Prince Ojupon’s site as the most suitable one with the course director at Cambridge  I have undertaken a repeated…

‘No one would have planned to build an enormous city on the basis of such an unusual configuration of lagoon…

Photographed in the traffic near the Lagos Port

Much of Lekki  is an artificial landscape, sand-filled swamps and reclaimed areas of the Lagoon. However some of the developers…

When a process similar to UK’s planning application takes place, documents are submitted to a local planning office, where a…

Built before indépendance, currently a disfunctional 140 room hotel with a large site near Oyingbo market and lagos terminus station,…

Today I went to see a large site suggested by Dr Jerry from Unilag. The site is one of the more vulnerable…

Today I visited the Landmark centre, an assembly of buildings and facilities striving to permit its guests to ‘Live, Work…

Previous hospitality institutions I visited, the Wavecrest College, the Lagoon hospital and Iroto school appeared to be well-looked after, spacious…

prince Ojupon of Ajah, civil engineer by training, showed me a different site of a suitable area, previously owned by…

Lekki Peninsula is a barrier island in a location where the Atlantic’s waves and currents are particularly strong and consistent…

Today I continued my work with the traditional families established in the older part of Lekki. One of the chiefs,…

Observation of the local life and architecture at yesterday’s boat trip’s destination. Being a popular spot for local tourism this…

A variety of water entities under the common name of Lagoon, which I have previously been studying to east of…

Some people say land on Banana Island is the most expensive in Nigeria, others say that in the whole of…

Lekki free trade zone is intended to become an alternative city centre for Lagos state over the next 20-30 years.…

Pan Atlantic university is positioned at the far and yet undeveloped side of Lekki Peninsula near Epe. Having been established…

Last Thursday I visited a 56-acre estate named Prаcht Garden (south of the Expressway in Ikota region) with proposed 40…

Today I met Chief Murisiku Alani Oseni Ojueonpo, the Baale of the town of Ajah where I am thinking to…

Because of the potential to base my site in an existing estate I went on s visit to this estate…

Use of bamboo: Nigeria is blessed with autonomously growing free scaffolding Below: new practice kitchens under construction with the typical block…

Below: Commercial activities along Lekki-Epe Express Way   Below: Location of a major mixed use node in the proposed masterplan:…

Yesterday I joined the Women’s Board NGO director on a journey to Ogun State to see the combined hospitality education…

Ajah and Eputu Town: two existing towns in Lekki where I am looking for sites. Site Information here