Village Market
Open-air African-village-style mall of courtyards and craft stalls, with a gallery of regional painting and sculpture.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Village Market in Nairobi follows architect Mehraz Ehsani, who in 1990 noticed Gigiri had nowhere nearby to shop and decided to design something stranger than a mall: open courtyards, curved walkways, and low sloped roofs shaped like a home. Construction started in 1992 with just ten shops, and for a while almost nobody wanted to lease them. Ehsani wanted, in his own words, a market that brings people together the way an actual African village does.
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