SOUTH AFRICAN FIRM WINS WANGARI MAATHAI INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY (WMI) ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPTITION
In quest to bring environmental sustainability to the next level, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai is to bring a peace and environmental institute in Kenya; Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies at the University Of Nairobi School Of Agriculture at Lower Kabete. ‘A Green Campus’ as she puts it is going to see issues of peace and environmental justice being taught. The University of Nairobi has allocated the Green Belt Movement up to nearly 50 acres of land where the institute is to be erected. This was unveiled by Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP accompanied by Dr Reuben Mutiso, Chairman of the panel of International jurors, who announced the winning architectural design at the Awards Ceremony held today at the Louis Leakey Auditorium, Nairobi National Museum. DHK Architects (Pty), based in Cape Town, South Africa produced the winning design of the Green campus ahead of the four other finalists that were reviewed anonymously by a panel of DHK Architects (