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Snøhetta has partnered with Zimbaqua, the world’s first mine empowering women through sustainable production practices, to create a new community-focused Center near Karoi, Zimbabwe. This partnership brings together Snøhetta’s design teams with the women who work to harvest aquamarine from the earth so that this thriving ecological and economic activity can continue to grow in the years ahead. Inspired by the traditional arts from the region and by the curving dry stone walls of the Great Zimbabwe palace, the Zimbaqua Center will create a vibrant social heart in the region where miners, their families, and visitors can flourish.
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Snøhetta is a transdisciplinary, dialogue-driven practice including architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, art, product design, graphic and digital design, often integrating a combination of interests across our projects. We share our name with a beautiful, remote, and historically important mountain in central Norway. Snøhetta is a place nobody is from, but anyone can experience. Creating places for societies to connect with each other and with the world around them is a primary motivation in our work. Dialogue and diversity empower this approach. Snøhetta first significant commission was in 1989 for Bibliotheca Alexandrina, reviving the ancient library in Alexandria, Egypt. This was followed by commissions for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City. Since those early projects, many other internationally acclaimed works have been realized around the globe. source: snohetta.com
