Click link on thumbnail.

More images...!

Parker House

.

.

.

"The low pitched roof with wide shading eaves adapts the pure geometries of modernism to the requirements of the tropics... The large single living and dining area takes up the ground floor and opens into different garden areas, with the first floor bedrooms projecting to form a verandah."

"The sense of inside/outside and the making of outside rooms is further developed upstairs. Here there are three bedrooms, all of which have both internal and external access. Timber sliding glazed screens open from these bedrooms onto a roof terrace which provides a most useable outside room; this outside room is connected directly to the garden with an outside stair. The architect had his own studio room on the same terrace."

Parker made alterations to the building in 1951, which included the addition of service rooms and a guest cottage in the same parlance as the original building. This building heralds the adaptation of internationalism to the Zimbabwean scene albeit with a local flavour and empathy.

Ref. Historic Buildings of Harare - Peter Jackson (1986)

.

.

.

Peter Jackson

.