Limbo Accra on unfinished buildings

S3E2 - Limbo Accra on unfinished buildings

Published: February 7, 2024

Duration: 33:24

How can we make productive use of the unfinished buildings that litter our towns, cities and landscapes? In this episode of Design Emergency, Dominique Petit-Frère and Emil Grip, founders of Limbo Accra, a spatial design studio based in Ghana and the US, tell our cofounder Alice Rawsthorn about their mission to ensure that we make the most of the possibilities to reimagine, rebuild and reuse the thousands of concrete relics, which were abandoned before construction was completed.

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Unfinished buildings are a largely ignored, yet wasteful and damaging aspect of architecture and construction. Dominique, who w...