We can not express how thankful and humbled we are for this honor!

We are so happy and humbled to have been there to witness our regional day market of Dandaji’s opening day! It was a wonderful day where we got to watch the merchants appropriate the place for themselves and the community (especially the children) discover and spend their entire day enjoying the new amenity.

We are excited to announce that Mariam will be speaking at the upcoming Design Indaba 2019 in CapeTown. Read what she has to say about design and the role it must play in Africa’s self-identity and confidence, and why architecture is so important to the continent’s future.

After a long search and many amazing candidates, meet atelier masomi’s new addition: Oumou Soumaré! Oumou is a young graduate from Ibn Khaldoun University in Tunisia who has worked in Niger and Senegal. She it committed to an architecture that fits its intended users and respects their narratives. An architecture that relies on simplicity to produce richness.

Welcome Oumou!

Global LafargeHolcim Awards 2018 winners (l-r): Bronze – Eric Mahoney and Constance Bodurow, studio[Ci], USA; Gold – Loreta Castro, Taller Capital and Manuel Perló, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico; and Silver – Mariam Kamara, Atelier Masomi, Niger and Yasaman Esmaili, Studio Chahar, Iran.

Rolex mentor Sir David Adjaye and protégé Mariam Kamara have reveal plans for mentorship at the 16th International Architecture Venice Biennale. The duo is to create a new cultural centre in Niamey, Niger that meets local needs.

After winning the LafargeHolcim Gold Award for sustainable building for Africa and Middle East, our Religious-secular project in Niger has now won Silver in the Global Competition for LafargeHolcim. The project came from a great design collaboration between Mariam Kamara and Yasaman Esmaili https://www.lafargeholcim-foundation.org/projects/legacy-restored

Riba Journal interviews Mariam for in their March 2018 issue

Design Indaba
The two architects will work together for two years as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Read more

Rolex has announced four new mentors and protégés for the prestigious Rolex Arts Initiative. In the architecture category, Sir David Adjaye was selected as mentor and Mariam will be his protégée in 2018-2019.

We were on African News' Morning Call show today, talking about contemporary African architecture and how it is important that we start focusing on creating spaces that take into account our local realities and cultures. Watch it here

The winners of the LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 winners for Middle East Africa were announced in Nairobi, Kenya on September 7th 2017.