An incremental Jamaican starter-home village puts permanent services, drainage and legal access ahead of showy architecture.

A shaded row of practical workshop bays gives Jamaican tradespeople a durable address and customers a safe place to wait.

A small prefabricated sidecar room gives an existing Jamaican bungalow extra space without disguising the old building or overloading it.

A modest Jamaican home places its architectural ambition in a folded concrete roof that shades, drains and ventilates a simple rectangular plan.

A cluster of simple low-cost rooms uses a retractable shade canopy for everyday comfort while leaving the permanent roofs ready for severe weather.

An abandoned limestone cutting becomes the sheltered edge of a low Jamaican home, with a lightweight roof, careful drainage and rooms open to the sky.

A shoreline protection plan for more than 14 kilometres of the Palisadoes Peninsula has been approved for NaRRA’s work programme, as the government moves to answer questions about how the new authority will be held to account.

A bold external steel frame gives an older Kingston apartment block shaded balconies without concealing the original building.

A striking rainwater storage tower gives a modest Jamaican home a new architectural identity while putting drought resilience and maintenance first.

A forgotten Jamaican limestone sugar shed becomes a striking live-work home through careful conservation and an independent modern steel structure.