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Eastgate
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Location
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Harare (Central CBD) | |
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Designers
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Pearce Partnership Architects | ||
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Date
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1993-1996 | ||
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Original
Client
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Old Mutual, (Assurance & Properties Conglomerate) | ||
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Style
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Post modern | ||
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Discussion
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The
complex is actually two buildings linked by bridges across a shady, glass-roofed
atrium open to the breezes. Fans suck fresh air in from the atrium, blow
it upstairs through hollow spaces under the floors and from there into
each office through baseboard vents. As it rises and warms, it is drawn
out through ceiling vents. Finally it exits though 48 round brick chimneys.
Engineered by Ove Arup & Partners (Zimbabwe), this building has won numerous awards world-wide for its trend setting innovations. The building seems to be let down by the inconvenient preoccupation with multi-levelled accesses and bridges that lead to the main vertical lifts/stairs. Ref. Donald G. NcNeil Jr. / The Author |
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Web
Resources
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Article: 'Termite Mounds Inspire Design of Zimbabwe Office Complex |
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