さりげなく、違いを。 LOCAL WORKS 栃木レザー「クラシコ」 約4mm厚のレザーに、 ナローオーバルバックル。 主張しすぎず、 自然と馴染む一本です。 rawcreate.fashionstore.jp/it… #localworks #栃木レザー #本革ベルト

なぜLOCAL WORKSは厚革にこだわるのか。 見た目だけではなく ・安定感 ・安心感 ・経年変化 ・長く使えること を大切にしているからです。 新品が完成ではなく 使い込むことで完成していく。 そんな厚革についてブログにまとめました。 rawcreate.fashionstore.jp/bl… #localworks #栃木レザー #厚革

NILE SAFARI LODGE - Murchison Falls (by Localworks architects) • Rebuilt by Ugandan firm Localworks — featured on ArchDaily • Concept: NO enclosed building. Thatched roofs that "float" above the landscape • Open-air design maximises airflow in Uganda's hot, humid north • 100% solar powered. Rainwater harvested purified. Greywater recycled. • Runs an "Adopt a Family" community initiative for surrounding villages • Hippos and elephants visible from the lodge at sunrise 🌅 Uganda's Nile doesn't just flow through it — it builds around it. 📍 Buliisa, Uganda #ExploreUganda #UgandaTourism

Most African countries keep losing its best talent to the west because there is nowhere here to nurture and grow it. No stages. No studios. No spaces that say your gift belongs here and the world will find you here. This is the Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre. Built inside one of the world’s largest refugee settlements in Uganda, home to over 270,000 people displaced by conflict in South Sudan. Every brick in this building was compressed by hand from the earth beneath it and cured under the Ugandan sun. The walls are arranged in textured geometric patterns that absorb and diffuse sound the way expensive acoustic panels would in a studio elsewhere. The roof collects 1.2 million liters of rainwater every year. There is a recording studio inside. A stage that opens its back wall to the landscape and doubles in size for large events. Children are recording music in a building made from the ground they stand on. This is the kind of infrastructure Africa needs in its numbers. Not just in refugee settlements. In every city, every town, every community where talent is dying quietly because there is no stage to stand on. More images from this project are in the replies. Hassell and Localworks | Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre | Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda | 2023

Angela Nkurunziza is a registered architect officially entered in the Register of Architects and licensed to practice architecture in Uganda. She works with Studio FH Architects, a member of the Localworks collaborative, which specialises in the design and construction of ecological architecture across East Africa. Angela has actively contributed to the successful delivery of a diverse portfolio of projects spanning the educational, residential, and hospitality sectors. Congratulations Arch. Angela Nkurunziza upon being entered in the Register of Architects. #ArbUganda #Architecture #UgandaArchitecture #BuiltEnvironment #Architect #Design #ShapingSpaces #ArchitectureUganda #StudioFHArchitects

Juliana has been entered in the Register of Architects. She is passionate about architecture that responds thoughtfully to people, place, and planet, with a strong focus on regenerative design, participatory urbanism, and creating built environments that enrich communities and livelihoods. She currently practices at Studio FH Architects, the architectural arm of Localworks, while also contributing to research and education initiatives advancing regenerative and green design conversations across East Africa. Congratulations upon your registration. #ArbUganda #Architecture #UgandaArchitecture #BuiltEnvironment #Architect #Design #ShapingSpaces #ArchitectureUganda #StudioFHArchitects

In Kabalagala, one of Kampala’s most dense and traffic-heavy neighbourhoods, there is a building that looks like it grew out of the ground. Because it did. The 32° East Arts Centre is built from the earth excavated from its own foundations; sifted, pressed and rammed into walls on the same site it came from. The eucalyptus timber used as formwork for those rammed earth walls was dismantled once the walls cured, then cut and relaid as roof shingles. Sandstone from a nearby quarry forms the base, protecting the earth walls from damp. There is no glazing in the windows, only shutters and honeycomb brickwork that let the breeze through while keeping the equatorial sun out. Dezeen named it Cultural Project of the Year in 2023. The design came from a London practice. The construction knowledge came from Localworks, a Kampala-based firm that is one of East Africa’s leading experts in earth construction. It is also home to the only specialist arts library in Uganda. This is what the ground under Kampala is capable of producing. The question worth asking is why it takes an international award for us to notice what our own soil can build. 32° East Arts Centre, Kabalagala, Kampala, Uganda 🇺🇬 | New Makers Bureau Localworks | Dezeen Cultural Project of the Year 2023 | Phase 1: 2023 | 📷 Timothy Latim

長く使うほど、革が育つ。 LOCAL WORKS 栃木レザー「クラシコ」 日本製レザーベルト。 しっかりとした革に、 タートイズシェル ギャリソンバックル。 デニムやチノに合う、 存在感のある一本です。 rawcreate.fashionstore.jp/it… #localworks #栃木レザー #本革ベルト

LocalWorks would’ve done a great job with this building if they were contracted.

Africa has the clay. Africa has the laterite. Africa has the compressed earth. What we keep importing is a building logic that was never designed for our climate, our communities or our budgets. This monastery in rural Uganda is the proof that we don’t have to. When Kenya’s 2007 election results were announced, the country broke. Kibaki declared winner, Odinga called it rigged, over 600,000 people were driven from their homes. Among them, a community of Cistercian monks who crossed into Uganda and started over. Localworks built their church from locally fired clay bricks and glass bottles pressed into structural arches, catching midday sun and throwing light columns straight down the nave. Cooler than concrete and cheaper than imported materials. Still standing. Now imagine that logic applied to every school or hospital we are building across this continent… Concrete blocks crack in ten years. Corrugated iron roofs turn classrooms into ovens. We keep funding them because they look like progress. Ministries set the standards. Architects make the choices. Communities live with the consequences. The materials to do this better have been under our feet the entire time. 📍 Kijonjo, Kyotera District, Uganda 🇺🇬 Architects: Localworks 📷 Will Boase

無駄を削ぎ落とした、一本。 LOCAL WORKS 栃木レザーベルト。 約4mm厚のレザーに、 エアロダイナミックバックル。 使うほどに、革が育つ。 rawcreate.fashionstore.jp/it… #localworks #栃木レザー #本革ベルト

Uganda again and this one hits differently. The Ross Langdon Health Education Centre in Mannya was designed by an architect who never got to see it built. Ross Langdon passed away in 2013. Studio FH Architects and Localworks realized his design anyway, as a tribute and as a gift to a rural community in Rakai that needed it. The building seats 150 people. No electricity needed during the day. No conventional windows. Instead, perforated brick screens that filter natural light across the interior. Eucalyptus poles as the structural frame. Mukeka reed mats for the ceiling, made by local craftspeople. And the detail that stops you: plastic bottles filled with water and bleach, inserted through the roof layer. Each one refracts sunlight and acts as a daytime light bulb. Zero cost. Zero energy. Full illumination. This is called the Litres of Light technique, a low-tech solution already used across communities in the Global South that most architects importing steel and glass have never considered. Brick, reed, eucalyptus, and a plastic bottle. That’s the material list. That’s the building. 📍Ross Langdon Health Education Centre, Mannya, Rakai, Uganda. Architects: Ross Langdon / Studio FH/ Localworks. Client: Cotton On Foundation.

Uganda at it again. A big shoutout to Local Works for their incredible works; beautiful, durable, and deeply sustainable. We need more architectural firms like them on this continent. Two primary schools built at the edge of Kidepo Valley National Park in Karamoja, one of the most remote landscapes in East Africa. The brief wasn’t just education. It was conservation. Build schools that make communities see wildlife as a livelihood, not a threat. The architecture answered that brief with the land itself. Hand-mined local granite for foundations and plinth walls. Compressed earth blocks manufactured on-site for the upper walls. No imported materials where local ones existed. The steel roof trusses were designed so light that two workers could lift them without machinery and slim enough that the roof structure of both schools fit on a single truck. The colored louvre panels do double work, security and shade. Rainwater harvesting. Solar power. Biogas from on-site latrines. The building isn’t just sitting in the landscape. It’s functioning like part of it. This is what it looks like when architects actually design for the people and the environment they’re building in. 📍 Kidepo Valley Primary Schools, Karamoja, Uganda. Architects: Localworks. 📷 Localworks

Join us in celebrating our people and parks with the new upgrades at Fletcher Cove! The Solana Beach community has come together to make our city a better, more accessible place. @calcities #localworks #CACitiesWeek #SolanaBeach

存在感のある一本を 日常の定番に LOCAL WORKS 栃木レザーベルト マットな質感から 使うほどに柔らかく馴染み 自然な艶へと変化していきます 程よいボリュームの 4cm幅レザーとカーブバックル 詳細はURLよりご覧ください rawcreate.fashionstore.jp/it… #localworks #栃木レザー #日本製 #本革ベルト

Cities are investing in infrastructure that keeps communities connected and moving 🚴‍♂️ @CityofSanRamon's new bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing — this year’s Overall Winner of the Outstanding Local Streets and Roads Project Awards — completed a key link in a 30-mile regional trail. #LocalWorks #CACitiesWeek bit.ly/4tLABLP

When Localworks started building Mustardseed Junior School in Uganda, nobody on their team had ever worked with earthbags before. They researched, prototyped, developed their own method and built a school from soil dug out of the ground it sits on. Not one classroom is rectangular. Not one has concrete. The thick earthen walls stop just short of the roof so fresh air circulates constantly. Eucalyptus trees cleared for the football pitch became the roof structure. Local woven mats line the ceiling. The school’s motto is “Start Small Grow Great.” The soil was depleted from decades of farming. Localworks set a target to leave the site with higher biodiversity than they found it. They planted indigenous forests. They rebuilt the earth. This is Uganda building with what Uganda has. More photos in the comments. 📍 Sentema, Uganda 🇺🇬 🏛 Localworks | Lead Architect: Felix Holland 📷 Will Boase Photography

Mustardseed Junior School by Localworks Sentema, Uganda 🇺🇬

Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de la Victoria, Kijonjo (Uganda). Localworks Arquitectos, 2021. Fotografía: Will Boase   Vía: @arquitect_viva 👇 arquitecturaviva.com/obras/m…

Cities are expanding recreation opportunities to bring communities together and enhance quality of life. 👏 In @CityofUkiah, that means everything from packed sports leagues and swim lessons to concerts, Pumpkinfest, and even dive-in movies — meeting regional demand without new taxes. 🏊‍♀️🎬🏀 #LocalWorks #CACitiesWeek bit.ly/421WN8v