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Author: GAR3TH

  • Lagos | Lekki Eko-Village | MasterPlan | Proposed

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    Farr Associates was commissioned to design a new sustainable settlement to serve as a model for Nigeria and Africa’s explosive land use development and growth. The Lekki-Eko Village, a new town located just outside the bustling city of Lagos, Nigeria, is meant to serve as a showcase for how renewable and high performance infrastructure can address Nigeria’s chronic infrastructure problems.

    The resulting plan, covering 3.6 square miles (2,340 acres), avoided while simultaneously connected sensitive habitat corridors, conserving more than 42% of the land slated for development. The first phase for 2500 families consists of two paired neighborhoods joined at a main street. Contrary to contemporary developments in Nigeria that address security concerns, the plan is ungated and open to the public providing a rare civic realm.

    The master plan also includes an eko-resort, located on 1,300 acres of a designated conservation area. Designed to be a weekend vacation destination, the houses, roads and boardwalks will be elevated to minimally impact the habitat and species already present within the wildlife preserve.

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  • Lagos | Number 24 | Office | 8F | proposed

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    The building Number 24, is located in the burgeoning business district of high-brow Ikoyi. The structure is a Mixture of aluminium glazing and glass, with a striking no. "24"

    It serves to accentuate the building viz-a-vis its enviroment.

    Project Name: Number 24
    architects: ACCL
    status: proposed
    # of floors: 8

  • Gurara Water Project | kaduna state | Multipurpose Developement | U/C

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    The Gurara Water Project is an ongoing multipurpose Dam Water Project for water supply, hydropower, irrigation and other ancillary uses. The project is being fully developed by the Federal Government of Nigeria. It presently comprises a system of large dam, 75km tunnel through Kaduna and Usma basins of Kaduna State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The dam is built on River Gurara and is Nigeria’s largest and pioneer water transfer scheme.

    The purpose of the project is to enhance the use of Gurara River by storing, regulating and controlling the flow of Gurara River and its affluent in order to effect the delivery of specified quantities of water to Designated Outlet Point for the FCT water supply and by utilising such delivery systems to generate at least 30 megawatts (1st Phase and 300 MW 2nd phase) of hydro-electric power to be fed into the national grid. The project is also to develop at least 20,000 hectares of irrigable land downstream of the dam.

    The Project will also implement Environmental and Social Management Action Programmes to protect the existing quality of the environment and enhance the socio-economic well being of the population living in the project area in Kaduna State, the FCT and Niger State. Tourism and fisheries will be developed on the reservoir supported by infrastructure facility such as access roads, construction camps, power, communication and other services (such as Demonstration and Project Development Farms for accelerated output enhancement).

    PROJECT NAME: GURARA DAM MULTIPURPOSE PROJECT

    MINISTRY: THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES.

    MANAGEMENT: GURARA WATER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY (GWMA)

    CONSULTANT: COYNE ET BELLIER / DECROWN (W.A) COMPANY LTD. JOINT VENTURE.,

    CONTRACTOR: SALINI NIGERIA LIMITED

  • FG Abandons Planned 52-Storey Skyscaper in Abuja

    FG Abandons Planned 52-Storey Skyscaper in Abuja

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    In 2006, the then minister of Culture and Tourism, Mr. Frank Ogbuewu disclosed that the Federal Government had concluded plans to build a 52-storey building at the heart of the nation’s cultural village in Garki, Abuja.

    The minister further explained that the edifice when completed would be used among other things as a cultural heritage, tourist centre, business and entertainment focal point.

    Further findings at the ministry headquarters revealed that the project may not have been captured in any year’s budget in the first instance till date. Many of the staff of the ministry who responded to Daily Champion’s enquires on the proposed heritage high-rise claimed little or no knowledge of the project.

    The abandoned project, it would be recalled was conceived by the ministry and considered by the Federal Executive Council in 2006, barely two years after the conception and resumption of construction activities on the recently delivered Burj Khalifa skyscrapers in Dubai……………………………

    BLA BLA BLA BLA THE REST OF THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT DUBAI ETC

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