The Nike Football Training Centre
The Nike Football Training Centre is a billboard of a building in the loud and proud tradition of Soweto, South Africa's biggest and most ambitious township.

Photo © Julian Abrams

Public Projects
The village of Gando is more than a threehour drive from the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, on occasionally unpaved roads that thread through a landscape of scorched orange dust and isolated trees buffeted by sub-Saharan winds.

Photo courtesy Kéré Architecture

Oguaa Football for Hope Centre
One of 20 football facilities that Architecture for Humanity is designing across Africa for the nonprofit Play Soccer, the Oguaa center is a place for disadvantaged youth to learn soccer, health, and social skills. Doubling as a community center, it is located on the grounds of Mfantsipim, the Gold Coast’s first secondary school (and Kofi Annan’s alma mater), established in 1876.

Photo courtesy of Architecture for Humanity

Ubuntu Center
Set at a crossroads in Zwide, a township in Port Elizabeth, this multipurpose center provides pediatric HIV/AIDS testing and treatment, as well as spaces for dance classes, performance, and social functions.

Photo © Jess Field

Girubuntu Primary School
In addition to designing the Girubuntu school, MASS Design Group founders Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks helped select its site, get approvals, and build the organizational infrastructure to support it.

Photo © Iwan Baan