Comments on: Sustainable Building in Zimbabwe Modeled After Termite Mounds http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/12/sustainable-building-in-zimbabwe-modeled-after-termite-mounds/ Architecture Tutorials 3D max Library Download AutoCAD ArchiCAD Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: SC http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/12/sustainable-building-in-zimbabwe-modeled-after-termite-mounds/#comment-8491 SC Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:39:13 +0000 http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/12/sustainable-building-in-zimbabwe-modeled-after-termite-mounds/#comment-8491 Heartbreakingly ironic location for such forward-thinking ideas as even now, prime minister Mugabe appears to be purposefully driving his own people into starvation and training children to kill (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3479353.stm) If you follow the money, you find the client that commissioned this amazing building is City Centre Properties (Pvt) Ltd, which is owned by Old Main. Old Main, a financial company, is named along with Barclays and others as having provided loans to keep Mugabe’s regime alive, e.g. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2000349,00.html#article_continue. Even the architect of this brilliant project (who has designed many buildings in Zimbabwe) has to work outside of Zimbabe because of the political climate: http://www.corenetglobalausnz.com/Text/1176773185461-3916/pC/1141013992186-5167/ (interview with architect) Heartbreakingly ironic location for such forward-thinking ideas as even now, prime minister Mugabe appears to be purposefully driving his own people into starvation and training children to kill (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3479353.stm)

If you follow the money, you find the client that commissioned this amazing building is City Centre Properties (Pvt) Ltd, which is owned by Old Main. Old Main, a financial company, is named along with Barclays and others as having provided loans to keep Mugabe’s regime alive, e.g. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2000349,00.html#article_continue.

Even the architect of this brilliant project (who has designed many buildings in Zimbabwe) has to work outside of Zimbabe because of the political climate: http://www.corenetglobalausnz.com/Text/1176773185461-3916/pC/1141013992186-5167/ (interview with architect)

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