News
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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.”
