{"id":37135,"date":"2018-03-16T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/new-ur-school-of-architecture-building-launched\/"},"modified":"2018-03-16T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:09:03","slug":"new-ur-school-of-architecture-building-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/new-ur-school-of-architecture-building-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"New UR School of Architecture building launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The construction of Rwf4 billion facility was funded by African Development Bank. Its master plan was developed by a French Architect Patrick Schweitzer.<\/p>\n<p>The premises were officially inaugurated by the Minister of Education, Dr. Eugene Mutimura yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Mutimura said that the facility will help to promote education in science and technology studies.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis is very crucial as our country envisions a knowledge-based economy; it is our country\u2019s target to promote innovation in technology and indeed this facility is essential,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>University of Rwanda\u2019s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Philip Cotton urged all users to sustain the beauty of the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE, Belyse Igihozo, Architecture student said that previously they had a small facility which would not enable them to learn comfortably. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had very small classrooms which would not enable us to feel comfortable. We are very happy as this facility will create a good learning environment for us,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Construction works started in 2015 and the premises were constructed using materials available locally including volcanic rocks locally known as \u2018amakoro\u2019. Over 350 got jobs during the construction activities.<\/p>\n<p>The building has the capacity to accommodate 600 students.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24428 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/inyubako_yatashywe-4-3d97b.jpg\" alt=\"New premises will accommodate School of Architecture\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24429 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_2784-bd9f1.jpg\" alt=\"Different officials cut the ribbon to inaugurate the building\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Rwanda\u2019s (UR) College of Science and Technology has launched new premises that will accommodate School of Architecture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37135"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37135"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}