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Article 25 is the UK's leading built environment NGO, delivering community-led projects in the world's most underserved regions - across healthcare, education, housing and community spaces, with award-winning design and lasting impact.

05/06/2026

This World Environment Day, led by the United Nations and UN Environment Programme, we’re highlighting how Article 25 designs and delivers projects that are climate-resilient, climate-responsive and built for long-term sustainability.

This year’s World Environment Day theme focuses on climate action - recognising the need for more sustainable approaches and environmentally responsible development across the built environment.

From our award-winning Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ in , where passive design principles help to cool classrooms in extreme heat, to the remote Kao La Amani Children’s village in , the environment is at the forefront of everything we do – using sustainable strategies that respond to local climates, communities and materials.

Aligned with the goals of UNEP and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we believe sustainable development should deliver long-term environmental and social impact.

29/05/2026

🏆Kao La Amani Children's Village wins an AIA Design Award! 🏆

We are thrilled to announce that the Kao La Amani Children's Village has won the 2026 Award for Excellence in Urban Design & Environmental Stewardship at last night's AIA UK Gala! 🥳

This award belongs to the entire team and community who made it possible. Nestled in Boma Ng'ombe, Tanzania, in the shadow of Kilimanjaro, the Kao La Amani Children's Village is a safe, nurturing home for 60 orphaned children, designed to transform lives and create hope for the future. The village comprises six family cottages, each with its own live-in Mama, alongside study spaces and expansive areas for sport and play.

Sustainability sits at the heart of the design: a timber truss dining hall, walls clad in locally sourced sisal poles from the Agave Sisalana plant, solar hot water heating, rainwater harvesting for laundry and irrigation, and a fully off-grid power, water, and drainage system - ensuring this village can serve children in the region for generations to come.

A huge congratulations and thank you to our incredible project partners:
Client: Tír na nÓg Children's Foundation CLG
Structural Engineers: MHA Structural Design
M&E Engineers: H***e Lea, WSP

This includes the Tanzania team:
Engineers: Estate Care
Quantity Surveyors: MK Arch & Plan
Architects: Multiphase
Contractor: Mosha Building Works

And the Kao La Amani community on the ground in Tanzania 🏘️

A special thank you to Toby Pear, Bea Sennewald and Paulina-Shari Stanley for your dedication to this project, and to every single person at Article 25 and among our local partners and community who gave their time, expertise and heart to bringing this vision to life. 💛

🔗 Read more about the project: https://www.article-25.org/our-work/kao-la-amani-childrens-village

Pamoja tumeweza - in Swahili, this means together we did it!

21/05/2026

This World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development led by UNESCO, we're reflecting on our work at Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ in Niger and the importance of designing with communities.

This year's theme - Culture Connects Us All - recognises the importance of preserving cultural identity and ensuring local voices and traditions remain central to sustainable development worldwide.

Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ demonstrates how culturally informed design can enrich communities. At its heart was a material: laterite stone, quarried locally and shaped by the exceptional skill of the project's contractor and his team of masons. Their expertise was irreplaceable - without it, laterite could not have become the building's defining material, rooting the college unmistakably in its landscape and culture.

At Article 25, every project begins with listening. Through early feasibility studies, we seek to understand the local context, culture and needs of the communities we work with, ensuring projects are shaped by local knowledge and lived experience.

By working alongside communities and stakeholders throughout our projects, we create spaces and infrastructure that support cultural identity rather than replace it. Protecting culture strengthens communities, preserves heritage and creates sustainable buildings that truly belong.

Find out more about Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ in Niger: https://www.article-25.org/our-work/college-amadou-hampate-ba

Delivered in partnership with engineers Max Fordham LLP and Structural Design, as well as contractor Afrique Univers SARL and Site Architect Gyormbey Kodzo Adaly-Mortty.

📷 Grant Smith & Souleymane Ag Anara

06/05/2026

Three years on from our Housing Recovery Project in Dominica - the homes are still standing, and the designs are still being built.

Site Architect Mark Webb Webb returned to the island in March 2026 and saw that model house designs created by Article 25 are being used for new builds across the island, entirely driven by local contractors.

"Seeing it four years on - those houses still standing, still being used, and the designs still being replicated - that's amazing."
- Mark Webb, Site Architect

This is what resilient design, done right, looks like: built for hurricanes, earthquakes and flooding, documented simply enough that local teams can carry it forward long after we've gone home.

Thank you to our partners - The World Bank Group and the Government of Dominica - and our design team: Clarkebond (Engineering), Edgehill Fortune and Associates (Local Consultants) and Rider Levett Bucknall RLB (Cost Consultant).

Read the full story 👇
https://www.article-25.org/news/built-to-last-resilient-housing-dominica-hurricane-recovery

30/04/2026

Toby Pear was in Lausanne last week representing Article 25 at the Sustainable Buildings & Construction Summit 2026.

Toby participated in a workshop titled 'From Risks to Results: Construction for Disaster Resilience', sharing Article 25's experience of designing for resilience through our work with communities around the world - including showcasing our Dominica Housing Recovery Project. 🏡

He also delivered an Innovation Spotlight presentation on our award-winning Niger College project, showing the value of well-considered passive design principles to improve comfort and reduce operational energy usage.

It was an amazing event - rich with interactive conversations, shared purpose and genuine optimism about what's possible when talented people work toward the same goals.

We look forward to building upon the connections and conversations made in Lausanne. Watch this space. 👀

A huge thank you to the co-organisers EPFL's Centre for Worldwide Sustainable Construction and UN Environment Programme's Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) for bringing together such a fantastic community of practitioners and changemakers.

Do you have a project where resilient, community-centred design could make a difference? Let's talk. 💬

22/04/2026

Kao La Amani Children's Village has been featured in not one, but three leading architectural publications this month 🙌

We're delighted that this special project - designed with community, climate and long-term impact at its heart - has been recognised in designboom, Architecture Today and Building Design.

A village that began taking shape in 2021 is now inspiring conversations far beyond Tanzania. That feels like something worth celebrating.

Read more about the project here: https://www.article-25.org/our-work/kao-la-amani-childrens-village

Tír na nÓg Childrens Foundation

07/04/2026

Today, on World Health Day, we reaffirm Article 25's commitment to creating healthier, safer communities around the world.

Access to healthcare should not depend on geography, income or circumstance. Yet millions of people continue to live without the facilities they need to live healthy, dignified lives. At Article 25, our work in designing and delivering health‑focused infrastructure - from clinics and hospitals to community health spaces - is driven by the belief that health is a fundamental human right.

This year's World Health Day theme highlights the vital role of science and collaboration in strengthening global health systems. Nowhere is this clearer than in our work at the Anandaban Mycobacterial Research Laboratory in Nepal, where world‑leading leprosy research takes place. The existing laboratory facilities are outdated and no longer meet necessary diagnostic and research standards, making a new laboratory urgently needed.

In 2024, severe storms and landslides disrupted the original construction site, halting progress. However, the hospital has since secured a new plot, and Article 25 is now revisiting and redesigning the laboratory plans to ensure this critical scientific work can continue in a safer, more resilient setting. This renewed effort reflects the very spirit of this year's theme: advancing global health through perseverance, innovation and the power of scientific partnership.

We are proud to collaborate with our partners, volunteers and supporters to ensure that well‑designed buildings enhance the essential scientific and clinical work taking place inside them.

Better health starts with better buildings - and together, we can make both a reality.

👉 Read more about our decade-long partnership with The Leprosy Mission Nepal and the Anandaban project: www.article-25.org/news/anandaban-hospital-10-years-the-leprosy-mission

The Leprosy Mission Great Britain

31/03/2026

A decade of architecture, resilience and partnership - we're proud to mark ten years working with The Leprosy Mission Great Britain at Anandaban Hospital, Nepal.

Ten years ago, a devastating earthquake brought Article 25 to Anandaban Hospital - The Leprosy Mission's flagship facility in Nepal and the country's main referral centre for leprosy complications. What began as an urgent response has grown into one of our most enduring partnerships.

Over a decade, we have designed and delivered a seismically resilient Trauma Centre, developed plans for a world-leading mycobacterial research laboratory and supported the team to support challenging obstacles in between - a global pandemic, forest fires and catastrophic landslides. Through all of it, our commitment to the work, and to the patients, clinicians and researchers at Anandaban, has never wavered.

We are so proud of everything achieved alongside The Leprosy Mission Great Britain and The Leprosy Mission Nepal. The Trauma Centre has already proved its worth beyond measure, and while the research laboratory has faced setbacks, the redesign is now underway on a new site. The next chapter is already being written.

👉 Scroll through the timeline and read the full story of ten years at Anandaban: www.article-25.org/news/anandaban-hospital-10-years-the-leprosy-mission

📸 Photo credits: Banner 5 and Banner 10 (bottom right): Thomas Bradley

26/03/2026

A landmark moment for Khammouane Provincial Hospital - and for healthcare planning in Laos.

Last month, our team travelled to Thakhek to present the Hospital Masterplan and Acute Care Building proposals to stakeholders spanning provincial government, the Ministry of Health, hospital management and clinical staff. The response was genuinely encouraging.

What made this significant wasn't just the proposals - it was the process. Our team brought a framework shaped by the people who use and run the hospital every day. As one stakeholder put it: the Masterplan involves everyone and outlines clearly how development can happen.

A sentiment echoed by our partners, LuxDev - Luxembourg Development Cooperation Agency, who described Article 25's approach as setting a strong example for future projects across the programme.

➡️ Read the full article to find out what comes next: www.article-25.org/news/designing-together-khammouane-hospital-masterplan-laos

Luxembourg Embassy in Laos

16/03/2026

This Thursday, we're at New York Build Expo 2026 - and we'd love to see you there.

Our Chief Executive Gemma Holding joins an expert panel at the Javits Center to discuss Constructing Sustainably: Opportunity for International Collaboration, alongside voices from Arcadis, Arup, KPF and the New York Power Authority.

At Article 25, international collaboration isn't a buzzword - it's how we work. We're proud to be bringing that perspective to one of the built environment's biggest stages.

Catch the session at 2pm on Thursday 19th March. Register below and come say hello 👇

🔗 https://www.newyorkbuildexpo.com/new-york-build-conference-agenda-2026/panel-constructing-sustainably-opportunitiy-international-collaboration

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