Premier Hospitality Design-Build
Designing and delivering hotels, resorts, and hospitality buildings in Ghana to operator and brand standard — guest experience, back-of-house, and commercial performance designed in, from a registered practice that can take the project from brief through to a built, accountable result. Since 1984. Book a design consultation.
A hotel earns its return on details a guest never sees — the back-of-house, the room efficiency, the operator standard — as much as on the ones they do. Architects Afrique designs hotels, resorts, and hospitality buildings in Ghana to operator and brand standard, and can take a project from first brief to a built result. A registered, process-led practice since 1984. Book a design consultation: +233 23 063 0038.
Why Developers Choose Architects Afrique
Designed to Operator & Brand Standard
We design to the operator’s brand standard and technical requirements — key count, room mix, the guest journey, and the technical sheets a flagged hotel has to satisfy — so the building is approvable to the operator, not just to the planners.
Guest Experience & Back-of-House as One
The arrival, the public spaces, and the rooms have to feel right — and the kitchens, stores, laundry, plant, and staff routes have to make the hotel run. We design both as one building, so the guest experience is supported by an operation that works.
Commercial Performance Designed In
Room efficiency, lettable area, food-and-beverage and event revenue, and operating cost are design decisions. We design hospitality buildings that perform commercially over their working life, not just on opening day.
Design or Design-Build, Managed Remotely
Take our drawings to your own contractor, or commission us design-build under one accountable team. Diaspora and overseas developers run briefs and reviews by video with full reporting.
What We Design
City & Business Hotels
Hotels for the business and conference traveller — efficient rooms, meeting and event space, food-and-beverage, and the back-of-house to run them, designed to an operator standard.
Resorts & Leisure
Resort and leisure hospitality — guest accommodation, pools and amenities, food-and-beverage, and the landscape and arrival sequence that make the offer.
Boutique & Lifestyle Hotels
Smaller, design-led hotels where the architecture and the guest experience are the product, rooted in a confident African identity.
Serviced Apartments & Mixed-Use Hospitality
Serviced-apartment and mixed-use schemes where hospitality sits alongside residential or commercial uses, planned as one coordinated building.
| Project | What we deliver |
|---|---|
| City / business hotel | Concept to permit drawings + construction documentation, to operator standard; design-build optional |
| Resort / leisure | Guest, amenity, and back-of-house design that performs and gains approval |
| Boutique / lifestyle hotel | Design-led hospitality with a distinct African identity |
| Serviced apartments / mixed-use | Coordinated hospitality-plus design under one team |
Our Design Process
- Brief, brand & operator standard — keys, programme, target guest, the standard to meet.
- Concept design — the guest journey, zoning, room layouts, identity, before it is detailed.
- Developed design & permit drawings — coordinated with the engineers and the operator’s standards, ready for approval.
- Construction documentation — the set a contractor builds and prices from.
- Construction support / design-build — site reviews or a single-team, single-responsibility build.
Registered & Accountable
- Works within the Architects Act 1969 (NLCD 357) and the Architects Registration Council / Ghana Institute of Architects (GIA)
- Registered engineering input (GhIE) where required; designs to L.I. 1630 and the Ghana Building Code (GS 1207:2018)
- Building-permit drawings and EPA permitting (L.I. 1652) — often required for resort and larger hospitality projects — handled as part of the service
- Established 1984 — a real practice with a portfolio, shared on request
What It Costs — Honestly
An architect’s fee is normally a percentage of the construction cost (the GIA publishes a fee scale as guidance) or a staged fee for the design work — concept, developed design, permit drawings, construction documentation. We agree the scope and fee with you up front, so the design service is a known cost — separate from the building itself, whose cost comes from a Bill of Quantities once the design is set. No guessed numbers.
Designing Across Greater Accra & Beyond
We design across Airport City, Cantonments, Ridge, Labone, East Legon, Osu, and the Spintex / coastal corridor — plus Kumasi, Takoradi, and Lomé, Togo. Diaspora and overseas developers design and deliver with us remotely with full reporting.
Areas We Serve
Architects Afrique designs across Greater Accra — Airport City, Cantonments, Ridge, Labone, East Legon, Osu, Spintex, and Tema — plus Kumasi, Takoradi, and Lomé, Togo.
Related Services
- Signature Commercial — commercial buildings that perform
- Architectural & Construction Integration — design through to build
- Decade-Warranty Architecture — built to last and stand behind
- Architects in Ghana — the full design and design-build service
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you design a hotel to an operator or brand standard? Yes — we design around the operator’s brand standard and technical requirements (keys, room mix, F&B, events, back-of-house), coordinated with L.I. 1630 and GS 1207:2018.
What does the design service cost for a hotel project? Normally a percentage of construction cost (the GIA publishes a fee scale) or a staged design fee, agreed up front so it is a known cost — separate from the building, whose cost comes from a BoQ once the design is set.
Are you registered architects? Yes — within the Architects Act 1969 / GIA framework, with registered engineering input, designing to L.I. 1630, GS 1207:2018, and EPA L.I. 1652. Credentials shared on request.
Can you design and manage the build while I develop from abroad? Yes — video briefs and reviews, permit handled, and a design-build commission managed with progress reporting.