Designed for a retiring couple who wished to be elevated with nature and comprise of a single main bedroom, with living and kitchen amenities. They were comfortable with an open brief, however the budget was R1.5mil. DMV Architecture was appointed architect, project management and responsible to oversee all construction works.

Due to the close proximity of the neighboring stands, the aim was to take a totally unique approach to privacy. This was done by re-interpreting the use of I-beams with tubular steel cladding to create a floating screen around the house, turning the steel façade into a gravity-defying, sculptural adornment.

THE HADUWA APATA is a stage, communal space and attractor for the Haduwa Arts and Culture Institute, located at Ghana´s coast, 80km West of Accra. It is a giant bamboo dome with three open arches facing in different directions—a grid-shell consisting solely of bamboo, designed and built by [applied]ForeignAffairs.

Este edifício recém construído e inspirado no próprio logo da empresa cujo Sol e Mar serviram de inspiração, serve para albergar os serviços da maior transportadora urbana de serviço publico da Praia, cuja sede segue o segmento de serviços e a parte descoberta para estacionamento dos autocarros.

Este empreendimento é constituído por três unidades edificáveis (Hotel, Centro Comercial e restaurante bar/panorâmico), emoldurada por uma praceta central com calçadões, mall comercial, miradouro servido por e um estacionamento periférico.

Carefully placed on site between the existing Acacia trees, Pavilion House attempts to be as much a part of its landscape as the rocky outcrops surrounding it. The design took a holistic approach, minimising the ecological footprint of the project from construction, to completion, & the rest of the house's lifespan.

The Sapiens Building answers its program and a challenging situation. Its polyhedral abstraction guarantees formal consistency and the galleries dramatize light and shadow, allowing the views, delivering an elegant vibration and denouncing the rationalization of the educational program. It is intense in its presence and generous in its public delivery.

Currently the approach towards the provision of housing at the mines is a conventional one (formal built housing). The problem is that 90% of the workers are migrant. Once the mine close, then the people re-locate to their place of origin. We therefore developed a mobile property.

The Mauritius Commercial Bank Building is important to World Architecture as being the first to be an ellipse in section and elevation. It is also the first building to have a BREEAM certificate in the southern hemisphere, placing Africa ahead of the South American and Australasian continents.