Welcome to Issue 89, tracing the growth reshaping Zimbabwe’s built environment, from new commercial hubs rising on the city’s edge to the finishing details that make a building last. Standing out is a new distribution and vehicle service centre on Seke Road, Harare, bringing warehousing, offices, a truck workshop and staff facilities together under one roof. In the same area, hand-laid brick and hand-welded steel detailing turns an industrial shell into a finished, working facility. At Harare Polytechnic College, a full refit of the administration block’s ceilings and lighting has given one of the campus’s most visible buildings new life. Elsewhere, we meet the co-founders of an architectural aluminium specialist, seven years into building the country’s sector, and preview a Harare conference on protecting infrastructure for the long term.