British High Commission
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From the southern tip of the site looking north
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Embassy offices including a visa section, a media lab, library and exhibition spaces for the British High Commission in Uganda
The scheme consists of three buildings, each of which is composed of a concrete frame with a brick masonry envelope and hollow-clay-block floors.
The building runs counter to the direction of the steep site to create a rise from two storeys at the entrance side, through three storeys at courtyard level to four storeys at the lowest end.
Fired clay is displayed in the walls, the roofs and parts of the floor. The bricks in the external wall are laid rough face out, contrasting with the grey-framed glass windows.
The roof of the visa-consular building is also clay tile, but double pitched with a clerestory vent. In each wing of the main building, rooms are arranged in a row off a single-loaded corridor that faces the courtyard, allowing for cross-ventilation. Each room is simple, with a wooden door off the circulation spine.
Data
- Completed: Aug 2005
- Sector: Civic
- Address: British High Commission, Plot 4, Kampala, 7070, Uganda
Professional Team 
- Architect: Kilburn Nightingale Architects
- Project architects: Ben Kilburn, Carolyn Steel, Edward Rutherford, Lucy Pritchard, Melanie Brunning, Rafael Marks, Richard Nightingale
- Client: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Estate Strategy Unit
- Structural engineer: FBW
- Structural engineer: Price and Myers
- Environmental engineer: Rynba
- Environmental engineer: Multikonsults
- Landscape architect: Melanie Richards
- Main contractor: Cementers, Kampala
- Project manager: Ridge
