A trans-disciplinary group bringing architecture, engineering and construction together with finance, investing and consulting — building work that endures across Kenya and East Africa.
Karago & Associates Architects, the founding practice of the group, has provided architectural, interior-design and project-management services across East Africa since 1995 — from billion-shilling master plans to single homes.
We work as a trans-disciplinary group, bringing design, capital and strategy together to deliver work that endures.
Studies that define the technical viability and financial feasibility of competing concepts, to guide investment decisions.
Setting project objectives, assembling the consultant team and drawing up the design briefs and criteria that steer it.
Establishing the policies, procedures and programmes needed to deliver the plan, and scheduling development.
Cost-benefit studies, budgetary requirements and cash-flow forecasts that keep a project within its means.
Reporting systems and milestones that keep every member of the project team working from current information.
Advice on contractors and suppliers, contractual strategy and tendering procedures.
Review of tender documentation and evaluations, recommendations on awards, and coordination of contract documents.
Quality, cost and time control on site — from interim certificates and variation orders to final account and as-built records.
Master planner and architect for the hospital's main complex — a USD 670M campus of first-class medical, research and teaching facilities.
A KES 9.3bn terminal for Kenya Airports Authority — 2.5M passengers a year across 37,500 m² of new floor space.
Lead consultant for a beachfront resort — innovative master planning balanced with comfort, open ambience and coastal aesthetics.
Shaping the future of Africa through design, capital and a trans-disciplinary way of thinking.
Karago & Associates Architects is a Nairobi architecture and master-planning practice founded in 1995. It provides architecture, master planning, interior design and project management across healthcare, transport, hospitality, industrial, commercial, financial and residential sectors in Kenya and East Africa.
Flagship commissions include The Nairobi Hospital Master Plan (USD 670M), JKIA Terminal 4 for the Kenya Airports Authority, Voyager Beach Resort for Heritage Hotels, the Brookside Dairy production complex, and a nationwide network of bank branches for Commercial Bank of Africa and Kenya Commercial Bank.
The practice is based at 14 Riverside, Arlington Building, P.O. Box 2131-00200, Nairobi, Kenya, and works across Kenya and the wider East African region.
Yes. Karago & Associates is registered under the Architects & Quantity Surveyors Act (Cap. 525) and holds a current practising certificate for architectural firms (044A, PCAF/838/25-26).
