News
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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...
