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February 1, 2023The Bayalpata Hospital in Nepal has been featured in Contemporary Architecture: Masterpieces Around the World
We're honored to be part of the showcase! Link to book purchase here.
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March 1, 2022Bayalpata Hospital featured in Building with Earth
"Earth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands or years, has in recent years attracted new attention as a healthy, environment-friendly and economical building material. An impressive number of...
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February 9, 2022Sharon Davis Design listed as one of Six Design Firms Championing Social Impact
Architizer has named Sharon Davis Design as one of six firms "turning their attention to underserved communities across the world." Read the full article here.
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October 20, 2021Bayalpata Hospital in Aquitectura Viva
"In one of the remotest and poorest regions of Nepal, a new facility has transformed an overwhelmed rural clinic and considerably expanded the territorial scope of its medical services." ...
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March 3, 2021Sharon Davis listed as one of 100 Women to Watch in Architecture
Architizer has named Sharon Davis as one of the 100 Women to Watch in Architecture. Read the full article and see the other women named here.
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December 21, 2020Bayalpata Hospital featured in Azure Magazine’s Top 10 Architecture Projects of 2020
"As architecturally relevant as it is socially important, the Bayalpata Hospital provides new healthcare facilities as well as staff housing in a remote part of Nepal where the doctor-patient ratio...
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December 9, 2020Bayalpata Hospital implementing EHR System
The Bayalpata hospital has implemented an open source Electronic Health Record (EHR) customized for Nepal’s public healthcare system. View the video description here.
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September 2, 2020Bayalpata Hospital featured in Italian publication ABITARE
View the full article in the PDF below:
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August 26, 2020MinimalBlogs posts about the Treehouse
"The playful Treehouse with a slide and climbing net" Read the full post here.
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August 20, 2020FRAME features Bayalpata Hospital as example of rammed earth construction
"As one project in this roundup evidences, using rammed earth for durable building can be just effective when developing massive institutions for public use." Read the full article here.
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August 3, 2020Bayalpata Hospital featured in Healthcare Design Magazine
"Inspired by the region’s building traditions (including two- and three-story houses in Achham constructed of mortared stone and finished with paint and an earthen stucco), the medical spaces are finished...
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July 21, 2020Bayalpata Hospital named as Finalist in 3 Architizer A+ Award Categories
The Bayalpata Hospital in Nepal is a finalist in the Healthcare, Sustainability, and For Good categories. Below is a link to all the other finalists: Architizer A+ Finalists
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June 17, 2020Bayalpata Hospital in Brazilian publication SustentAqui
Read the full article on their website sustentarqui.com.br
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June 10, 2020Bayalpata Hospital on Dezeen.com
"Bayalpata Hospital is a medical complex in Achham, Nepal, built from rammed earth by American architecture office Sharon Davis Design. Serving one of Nepal's poorest and most remote regions, Bayalpata...
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April 28, 2020Read about Bayalpata Hospital on Inhabitat website
"An inspiring beacon of humanitarian architecture has arrived to one of the poorest and most remote regions of Nepal — the new Bayalpata Hospital in Accham." Read the full article...
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April 23, 2020Bayalpata hospital featured in German publication BauNetz
Read the full article on baunetz.com
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April 19, 2020Bayalpata Hospital featured in L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui
Below is a link to our excerpt in the AA 437 issue Fabulous Britain.
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April 17, 2020Bayalpata Hospital featured in d’architectures
Read the full article on darchitectures.com
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April 15, 2020Natural Healthcare
"The new Bayalpata Hospital (pictured), which opened this week, is a smart upgrade on an old, rundown centre. Designed by New York-based Sharon Davis Design, it draws upon natural local...
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April 14, 2020“Sharon Davis Design completes rammed earth community hospital in rural Nepal”
"The overall design of the campus was intended to maintain a domestic appearance through the use of a low profile and courtyards landscaped with native plants. From a distance, the...
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April 13, 2020“Rammed earth Bayalpata Hospital opens in Nepal”
"new york city-based studio sharon davis design presents its newly completed bayalpata hospital in achham, one of nepal’s poorest and most remote regions. the project brings healthcare to the most remote area of nepal, where the doctor-patient...
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April 7, 2020Sustainability is a Nonnegotiable at Sharon Davis’s Bayalpata Regional Hospital
"Inside the buildings, south-facing clerestory windows bring in daylight, contributing to solar gain in winter and cross-ventilation in summer. Narrow windows—their width determined by the rammed-earth construction unit—admit periodic views...
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April 6, 2020“Poverty – The Real Pandemic” – Nepali Times
"At Bayalpata, we treat patients who have walked or have been carried for days because they either do not have access to medical care, or cannot afford it. Having a...
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April 5, 2020Bayalpata Hospital in Nepal featured in Spanish publication Ambientes
Read the article on ambientes.com
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March 26, 2020Congrats to our former staff Bruce Engel for winning Architizer’s 2020 One Photo Challenge
Congrats to our former staff Bruce Engel for winning Architizer's 2020 One Photo Challenge with a photo of our Rwandan Women’s Opportunity Center for Women for Women! Read the...
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February 28, 2020Sharon Davis’ interview for Madame Architect – The Essence of Architecture: Sharon Davis on Getting Hooked, Bridging Communities, and Building Closer to Home
"Founder of Sharon Davis Design, Sharon talks to Amy Stone about her architectural career later in life and focusing on needs- and mission-based community projects, advising young architects to start...
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February 21, 2020Sharon Davis Design has been longlisted for a 2020 Ashden Award
We are honored to be on the Ashden Award longlist in the Sustainable Built Environment category View the full Longlist here.
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January 21, 2020Bayalpata Hospital featured in Architectural Digest
"Thanks to a new project by the do-good architecture firm Sharon Davis Design, high-quality health care just got closer to home. Working in collaboration with the nonprofit Possible Health and...
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January 1, 2020WOC featured in Chris van Uffelen’s new book Bricks Now & Then
"The design draws on the delicacy of this vernacular Rwandan construction method with rounded, perforated brick walls that allow for passive cooling and solar shading, while maintaining a sense of privacy....
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December 7, 2019Bayalpata win at WAF featured on CNN
Our win in the health category has been featured in the CNN article World Architecture Festival names Building of the Year Slide 3/18
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December 6, 2019“Bayalpata Hospital wins global design award” – Nepali Times
“It was a deliberate design decision to work with the natural environment as much as possible and also to address the cultural context,” says Tyler Survant from Sharon Davis Design...
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December 5, 2019Bayalpata Hospital named winner of Health category at WAF
We are pleased to announce that the Bayalpata Hospital has won the Health category at this year's World Architecture Festival. We dedicate this win to the patients and staff of...
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September 3, 2019Bayalpata Hospital featured on Nepali Times
"An obsolete government facility is now one of the most modern and eco-friendly hospitals in Nepal, providing accessible and affordable health care to the most undeserved part of the country....
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August 1, 2019Bayalpata Hospital is a finalist for the WAF 2019
We are thrilled to announce that the Bayalpata Hospital in Nepal has been shortlisted in the 2019 World Architecture Festival! Read more about the World Architecture Festival
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July 11, 2019Garrison Treehouse featured on Fast Company
"The Garrison Treehouse is not like most treehouses. It’s neither situated in a tree, nor is it a typical single-space suspended playroom. In fact, it wasn’t even built by a construction crew—it was...
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April 15, 2019Let’s Talk Business, curated by Vittorio Lovato
Let’s Talk Business is on view at Yale School of Architecture until May 4th. The exhibition presents the work of six social-impact, humanitarian architectural practices, or architect-led agencies, through their...
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March 13, 2019Architizer: From A to Zaha: 26 Women Who Changed Architecture
Architecture is a second career for Sharon Davis, who switched gears after many years working in finance. However, once her degree was in hand, Davis wasted no time making a name...
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February 13, 2019Architizer: 19 Women Architects to Watch in 2019
Sharon Davis’s Women’s Opportunity Center in Rwanda won both the Popular and Jury A+Award for Architecture +Community in 2015 and it isn’t hard to see why: the complex is one of the...
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September 12, 2018MODA’s upcoming exhibition Design for Good: Architecture for Everyone
Curated by John Cary, author of the book Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone. John is an architect, writer, speaker, and curator focused on design and philanthropy. The exhibition...
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July 25, 2018Rwandan Share Houses featured on nonagon.style
"For the Sharon Davis Design team, success is measured as much by social benefit as it is by aesthetic accomplishment. We think it's pretty fair to say that the Shared...
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July 17, 2018Garrison House featured in David Sokol’s new book Hudson Modern
"When Davis began designing a new house across the street at about the same time, analogous criteria held sway. To be constructed on the foundation of a shed adjacent to...
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April 17, 2018Shelter Afrique announces winners for its 5000 for 5000 Competition
Over 120 submissions were made for the competition from various countries across the world. First place was awarded to Teteh & Associates of Ghana Second place was awarded to Morphosis...
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March 30, 2018Free for all care: Achham Nepal Bayalpata Hospital
"Free world-class medical care in rural Nepal? It sounds too good to be true, but the group Possible is doing just that by bridging the gap in access to basic...
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March 7, 2018WOC featured in John Cary’s new book Design for Good
"Each day, upward of one hundred women flock to a community center that, for many, is like a second home. That was always the goal. Not only was the place...
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March 7, 2018John Cary’s TED talk featuring the WOC
“Everyone deserves good design.” Watch John Cary’s new TED talk on the dignifying power of design. His beautiful message is personal, powerful, and timely. https://go.ted.com/johncary
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March 13, 2017PIH Share Houses featured on arcspace.com
http://www.arcspace.com/features/sharon-davis-design/rwandan-share-houses/
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May 25, 2016Rwandan Share Houses have won an Architizer A+ Awards in the Architecture +Low Cost Housing category
Our Partners in Health Dormitories in Rwinkwavu, Rwanda have been named a winner of the Architizer 2016 A+ Awards program. Thank you to everyone who voted for our project!
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May 9, 2016Read the recent post on Women’s Opportunity Center in Inhabitat
"WOC helps Rwandan women rebuild their war-torn lives" Read more here.
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May 9, 2016Sharon Davis discusses local materials and sustainable buildings in The Architectural Review
Read the full article here.
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April 8, 2016Dispatches from a recent trip to Achham, Nepal
In February, Sarah Witkin visited the site of Bayalpata Regional Hospital. Here are a few images of the rammed earth housing units going up.
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March 19, 2016A New Way to Care for Nepal’s Poorest
“If such a small organization can bring such huge changes, I think anything is possible if we try.” Read the full article on The Atlantic.
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February 10, 2016Women’s Opportunity Center is included in the February issue of Ecologik
Sharon Davis was recently interview for an article on WOC by the French Magazine, Ecologik.
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February 10, 2016Archdaily picks PIH Dormitory as “Healthcare Architecture” of the year!
View the article on the dormitory here: View the full list here:
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January 13, 2016The Architectural Review names Women’s Opportunity Center as the winner of Culture 2015
We are honored to be the recipient of the prestigious Architectural Review 2015 Culture Award for the Women’s Opportunity Center in Rwanda. "The Women's Opportunity Center by Sharon Davis Design...
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January 5, 2016PIH Share Houses are featured in the German edition of Detail Magazine
Read more here.
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November 12, 2015Bricks are the material of the moment
Contemporary brickwork is not only visually stunning—with the medium’s calibrating textures, colors, shadows, and lines—but also structurally innovative as an engineering practice. The latest issue of AR highlights the brickwork...
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October 6, 2015Sharon Davis Design To Partner With Possible Health In Its Commitment To Rebuild Nepal’s Health System
On September 27th, Sharon Davis shared the stage with representatives of Possible Health at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting in honor of their innovative and exemplary approach to providing...
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August 6, 2015Dormitory is featured in ArchDaily
In a major step forward for the local healthcare system of Rwinkwavu, Rwanda, two new “share houses,” designed for Partners In Health and the Rwanda Ministry of Health open this...
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May 20, 2015Davis Residence: Sustainable tiny house in Garrison, New York
"The house is tiny (900 sq. ft.) and environmentally responsible, while still feeling luxurious and comfortable." Read the Full Article on 10stunninghomes.com
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March 26, 2015Women’s Opportunity Center Rwanda
On a two-hectare site in Rwanda, the most densely populated country in Africa, the Women’s Opportunity Center is empowering one small community and, in turn, rewriting our role as designers.
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March 16, 2015The March issue of Metropolis features the recently completed Davis House in Garrison, NY
With the help of local craftspeople, architect Sharon Davis designs a rural retreat in the Hudson Valley that privileges nature. Read the full article here.
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March 1, 2015Women’s Opportunity Center is the A+Award Jury and Popular Choice Winner in the Plus Categories | Architecture +Community category!
Thank you everyone for your votes!
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February 1, 2015Garrison Treehouse in the February Issue of Hinge Magazine
Hinge Magazine’s February issue includes The Garrison Treehouse and describes it as a “playful interpretation of a modern treehouse [that] is a study in contrasts: hard and soft materials and...
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September 3, 2014Read about WOC in The Architectural Review
“Drawing on local precedents, this center teaches cultivation skills to the women of a Rwandan village, improving both their prospects and those of the community.”
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September 1, 2014“Tree Bien” treehouse in Dwell Magazine
An inventive, freestanding “tree house” built by an architectural designer for her family grows in Garrison, New York.
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August 3, 2014Women’s Opportunity Centre featured in PUBLIC Journal design + humanity
PUBLIC explores how Sharon Davis Design designed a not only sustainable, but also uniquely Rwandan center to benefit women that are left with deep scars, few resources, and uncertain futures...
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May 3, 2014Game Changer: Women’s Opportunity Center featured in Metropolis Magazine
"It was the first trip we took there to look at the land, but all I could see were these women walking up and down, up and down the hilly...
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March 18, 2014“Let’s Talk Coffee – Rwanda” Conference held at WOC
The newly opened Women’s Opportunity Center hosted its first conference for local female coffee farmers and roasters. An interactive and engaging event, Let’s Talk Coffee brought together Rwandan farmers, merchants,...
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March 3, 2014WOC in Arquitectura Viva
“Built with traditional building materials and techniques, this new training center intended specially for women is an oasis of peace and education.”
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December 20, 2013Women’s Opportunity Center featured in Afritecture Exhibit
Sharon Davis Design's Women's Opportunity Center was featured in 'Afritecture,' an exhibition on African Architecture in the 21st century.
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July 30, 2013Fast Company features the WOC
"How one architecture firm built a sustainable building in rural Rwanda" Read the full article on their website here.
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July 9, 2013Sharon Davis Design is named as one of the ‘socially engaged’ designers by Architectural Record
The Women’s Opportunity Center, in Kayonza, Rwanda, helps was survivors learn to support themselves as farmers and craftspeople. Working with the nonprofit Women for Women International, Sharon Davis Design conceived...
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June 8, 2013Women’s Opportunity Center Opens
Women for Women International (WfWI) is a global NGO that has supported the construction of the Women’s Opportunity Center, to be opened shortly, in Kayonza Rwanda. The Center, design by...
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May 31, 2013Construction Continues at Doyle Residence
Photos were taken on May 31st during a site visit.
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January 15, 2013Sharon Davis Design’s WOC Named 2013 Metropolis “Game Changer” in Architecture
Sharon Davis Design was awarded the 2013 Metropolis "Game Changer" award for architecture for it's work on the Women's Opportunity Center in Rwanda. The article provides insight into the center...
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October 3, 2011Women’s Opportunity Center wins at WAF
Sharon Davis Design is pleased to announce that the Women's Opportunity Center won its category as the "Best Future Project" at this year's World Architecture Festival.
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November 9, 2010Sharon Davis honored with WfWI Active Citizen Award
At this years Women for Women International Gala, Sharon Davis was chosen as the 2010 Active Citizen honoree for Sharon Davis Design's work on the Women's Opportunity Center in Rwanda.
