Is Lagos Turning To Dubai Before Our Very Eyes?




Eko Pearl Towers






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Champagne Pearl Towers






Medical Center, Eko Atlantic





Designing a State-of-the-Art Medical Facility in Nigeria

Rebecca Zinn

DBI Architects



After a harrowing first-hand experience with the precarious state of Nigeria’s medical system, Nigerian expatriate and American citizen Philip Njowusi embarked on a project that would not only provide a state-of-the-art medical facility in Lagos, the country’s most populated city, but also attract highly skilled medical practitioners to Nigeria. As the site of this innovative facility, Njowusi selected a location as extraordinary as the project itself: Eko Atlantic, a multibillion-dollar, environmentally sustainable, ultramodern planned development—to be constructed on four square miles of land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. Situated south of Lagos and bordering Victoria Island, the city is expected to be an economic boon for the West African subregion, creating an oasis of opportunity for Lagos’s 17.5 million inhabitants.


DBI Architects, in collaboration with SmithGroup JJR, approached the design of the Eko Atlantic Medical Center with the objective of creating a self-contained, easily accessible campus that provides functionally separate, yet stylistically integrated, medical and residential spheres. After completion, the city of Eko Atlantic is expected to accommodate 400,000 residents and 250,000 daily commuters; the city’s primary medical facility, then, must have the capacity to treat both the routine and critical health concerns of such a large population.

To fulfill these requirements, the architects designed three central campus structures totaling 1,011,570 SF. The largest (370,900-SF) medical building, to be constructed during Phase I of the project, provides space for 150 private in-patient beds within its boomerang-shaped elevated structure and houses the Center’s interventional platform, which includes an emergency room, imaging suites, operating rooms, laboratories, specialty clinics and sleep labs, a pharmacy, and a cancer center.

Also located in this building are the Center’s materials management and operational systems areas; its kitchen, dining area, and café; and its administrative offices and conference rooms. Phase II of the project includes the construction of a second medical building (260,998 SF) that also accommodates 150 beds. These two buildings arc into each other, as if they are about to embrace, across an open healing garden and connect via a main corridor that features the facility’s main lobby, information and security desks, and outpatient registration area.

On the northeastern corner of the campus, a 26-floor high-rise (379,673-SF) soars above the site’s other buildings; primarily a luxurious residence providing 100 apartments for hospital staff, this structure also houses outpatient medical offices and labs on its first few floors. The medical buildings and the residential/office tower each have separate entrances to access the campus’s 1,200-car parking garage, located on the site’s northwestern corner. Similarly, the tower’s outpatient offices and residences have separate entrances to minimize the impact of public areas on private space.

DBI and SmithGroup JJR’s overall design aesthetic was to create a futuristic, open, and high-tech campus that united its buildings in style and concept but articulated their distinctly different functions through shape. A key element that integrates the buildings is an emphasis on the continual circulation of fresh air. The two medical buildings are oriented along a north-south axis and elevated above the street level, so that ocean breezes are channeled through the buildings’ healing garden and, then, toward the residential tower. Featuring an open core, the high-rise is able to take advantage of these crosswinds, which continually refresh the building’s interior. In addition, each unit’s balcony extends deep into the apartment’s interior to provide ventilation within the living space.

The fully perforated, permeable skin that sheaths the tower is another subtle, yet functionally important, design feature that promotes air circulation and cooling. Taken as a whole, the open, yet controlled, space of these three buildings conveys a sense of respiration that promotes healing and relaxation. The shapes of the tower and the medical buildings are unexpected and unique; the verticality of the high-rise anchors the entire campus and establishes the Center’s identity as strong and healthful.

To distinguish between the buildings’ residential and medical functions, the architects designed the medical buildings to be lower to the ground with a horizontal orientation, a feature emphasized with the addition of green roofs and gardens. While the tower’s height enables residents to enjoy ocean views, the two medical buildings feature open, five-story glass atria on their south façades, providing access to beautiful ocean vistas, and on their north façades, overlooking Eko Atlantic’s glittering cityscape.




Azuri Peninsular








Palms Mall 2 Extension






Rose of Sharon, Kuramo






21 Gerrard Ikoyi






NIPOST Towers






Park Residence




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Phase: Design phase
Location: Eko Atlantic, Lagos, Nigeria
Type: Commercial
Project Total Area: 60 000 Sqm




Eko Boulevard

Don't count your chickens before they hatch

would be nice having such structures in eko. those of us that can't afford the trip to Dubai can at least make do with these.

Huge dreams and plans but if we get our acts together, we can pull then off

Thank you Asiwaju Tinubu

Eko oni baje o! Beautiful dreams! We shall get there someday. Even Rome wasn't built in a day...

After all that supposed 'magnificence'... they will all be powered with generators and in 5 years, they will be like all the other lagos big projects - run down and covered in generator sooth and then the cycle continues... ekoo oni baje o!!!!

don't get me wrong, lagos is t- werking!!

Great foresight by Lagos State leaders especially Tinubu.

They need to get an off grid power barge to ensure constant electricity.

Eko oni baje o


Now Oyo state, do something and make use of your population!!!

kayfra:
Great foresight by Lagos State leaders especially Tinubu.

They need to get an off grid power barge to ensure constant electricity.

Eko oni baje o


Now Oyo state, do something and make use of your population!!!

you guys are stupid and there's no hope for nigeria if you can be so dumb. what does Tinubu (your God ) has to do with the eco atlantic? It's private project ,not Tinubu Atlantic . Even if Tinubu was the governor ,is it built with his money? Humpty Dumpty!

daveante28:
you guys are stupid and there's no hope for nigeria if you can be so dumb. what does Tinubu (your God ) has to do with the eco atlantic? It's private project ,not Tinubu Atlantic . Even if Tinubu was the governor ,is it built with his money? Humpty Dumpty!

It's called creating an enabling environment for such projects to thrive.

Doofus

Fools, they need to fix electricity first & eradicate malaria. High rise Towers in Britain & US were made with billions to ensure safety first above anything then longetivity. Please dont use corruption to spoil peoples lives because when the contract rest, where they can exchange real with fake to eat money is what they will be thinking about

Lol. Pipe Dream.

Concept arts and computer graphics are awesome things, aren't they? Lmao.

With oil price crashing into the earth's core, only heavens know where they are going to leech off the money to carry out these imaginary projects from.

Only a matter of time and Lagos would devolve into the likes of its neighbouring states like Osun, Oyo, Ogun and so on.

The mainland is gradually swallowing the islands and it is bringing with it its poverty and dilapidation.

*yawns* Anyway dreams and imaginations cost nothing.

Eko oni baje oo

DerKaiser:
Lol. Pipe Dream.

Concept arts and computer graphics are awesome things, aren't they? Lmao.

With oil price crashing into the earth's core, only heavens know where they are going to leech off the money to carry out these imaginary projects from.

Only a matter of time and Lagos would devolve into the likes of its neighbouring states like Osun, Oyo, Ogun and so on.

The mainland is gradually swallowing the islands and it is bringing with it its poverty and dilapidation.

*yawns* Anyway dreams and imaginations cost nothing.

ipod spotted

what they wuld have done since 1980s

Lagos is a beacon of hope and development in Nigeria.

DerKaiser:
Lol. Pipe Dream.

Concept arts and computer graphics are awesome things, aren't they? Lmao.

With oil price crashing into the earth's core, only heavens know where they are going to leech off the money to carry out these imaginary projects from.

Only a matter of time and Lagos would devolve into the likes of its neighbouring states like Osun, Oyo, Ogun and so on.

The mainland is gradually swallowing the islands and it is bringing with it its poverty and dilapidation.

*yawns* Anyway dreams and imaginations cost nothing.

Bad-belle can kill o.

love to c before my eyes

But all these are on the island what about mainland like yaba, Ikeja, ikorodu and iyana ipaja areas?

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DerKaiser:
Lol. Pipe Dream.

Concept arts and computer graphics are awesome things, aren't they? Lmao.

With oil price crashing into the earth's core, only heavens know where they are going to leech off the money to carry out these imaginary projects from.

Only a matter of time and Lagos would devolve into the likes of its neighbouring states like Osun, Oyo, Ogun and so on.

The mainland is gradually swallowing the islands and it is bringing with it its poverty and dilapidation.

*yawns* Anyway dreams and imaginations cost nothing.

ENEMY OF PROGRESS

I aint gonn hate. I really hope they achieve these and even more

Haters gonna hate.
A strategic omoluabi project.
Kudos to tinubu and Fashola for funding the infrastructure.

Africa's Dubai Taking Shape - I'd Be Glad If Project Like This Can Be Replicated To Every Part Of Lagos!

Is this the lie Bola Tinubu wants to use and campaign in Ondo state? coming to post pictures of fictitious buildings you haven't built on the lands you stole in Lagos state

Came to see actual construction works going on... Left disappointed.

My only grouse with this project is that its going to be in the middle of atlantic ocean....if there is an ocean surge people will die,please I don't want to hear technology will solve it...some things are natural,don mess with nature!!!...nice edifice though.may God grant us Long and fulfilled life to see its completion.....God bless Nigeria

Ekooooooooo! If you be woman I 4 don marry you since. Beautiful Lagos