African Design Magazine October 2014 | Page 95

Architect profile “Finally, at Koffi & Diabaté, we also try to raise public awareness about urbanisation challenges for the creation a new vision for our cities. We do so via the National Order of Architects with whom we launched, among other projects, the country’s first Architecture and Construction Exhibition (Archibat), as well as in our personal initiatives such as student conferences, training of young architects and small-scale projects which positively affect the environment,” says Koffi. For the next twelve months, the focus for Koffi & Diabaté will be to further implement their vision as Architect Developers via four main projects: • Les Résidences Chocolat: a luxury residential compound, currently under construction, comprised of 32 units, where they are introducing a new living concept, l