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PROJECT

BUPENYU LODGE, ZIMBABWE

Bupenyu Lodge is situated in Matabeleland, 25km north of Victoria Falls, overlooking

the Batoka Gorge in Zimbabwe. The meaning of the word Bupenyu suggested by the
community is to give life, and this is exactly what the lodge has done for the area and
its surrounding community.

View from the main deck of the lodge
Project Team he owners of the lodge first started maximising unimpeded views of the Batoka
Client and Lodge Operator: by investing and developing in the Gorge, with the Zambezi River flowing
Newmark Hotels Tsurrounding local community by about 150m down below it. Built right on
Architecture: Experience Architects giving them life in the form of more than the cliff edges, the landscape is spectacular
Landscape Design and Installation: 12 sunken boreholes to provide access to in front and around the buildings. Great care
Gordon Kershaw clean, natural ground water. This was just was taken not to disturb the natural bush
Main Contractor : the start of the community upliftment, and rock formations around the buildings
Town & Country Construction which would later supply all the labour to and cliff edges - for environmental as well
Structural Engineering: Struxit Projects help build the lodge and be trained in skills as security reasons.
Quantity Surveyor: Fox QPC they would never have learned. Nick Randall of Experience Architects
The architect’s design revolved around adds: “The gorge has been cut back for

Plunge pools in front of each room, overlooking the bushveld surrounds

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