Global Design Competition Winner: Building Malaria Prevention
Gomina Mark Omeiza, alongside Petra Vera Remenyi, was declared a winner of ARCHIVE's Global Design Competition — Construire la Prévention du Paludisme — while working with Jarrett-Yaskey, Garber & Associates (now JYGA Architects).
About the Award
In 2013, ARCHIVE — a UK-based organisation working at the intersection of architecture and public health — ran a global design competition calling for ideas on building malaria prevention directly into the built environment. Gomina Mark Omeiza and Petra Vera Remenyi, then working under the Jarrett-Yaskey, Garber & Associates banner, were named among the winners.
The certificate was signed by Peter Williams, ARCHIVE's Founder and Executive Director, formally recognising the submission for its contribution to the competition's brief: designing spaces that actively reduce the spread of a disease that remains one of the leading public health challenges across the region the firm works in.
Why It Fits
The win sits alongside a broader thread running through JYGA's work — architecture that responds directly to the realities of the places it's built for, rather than importing a design brief wholesale. It's the same instinct behind the firm's healthcare and humanitarian commissions, from the Marie Stopes Medical Centre in Freetown to the HAVEN Disaster Recovery Forum, and later formalised in the firm's LEED Gold-certified sustainability work.
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