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Building: Eastgate Centre
Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
Address: G13 Eastgate New Complex, Zimbabwe
Developer: Old Mutual Properties
General Contractor: Constain Sisk Joint Venture
Architecture: Mick Pearce
Structural Engineer: Arup
MEP Engineer: Arup
Civil Engineer: Arup
Quantity Surveyors: Hawkins Leshnick & Bath
Started: January 1993
Completed: April 1996
Cost: $30 Million
Area: 9313m sq

AE Interests:
biomimicry, natural ventilation inspired by termites, passive cooling, Zimbabwe’s largest commercial office and shopping development, energy-efficient sustainable building design, exposed thermal mass, two narrow nine-story reinforced concrete building masses connected by glass-roofed atrium with steel bridges, suspended glass skywalk, ventilated concrete floors, low-level grilles on external wall, air enter at the bottom using fans and pushed through the central spine to branch into small vents to create stack effect

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