Architect profile
featured an outdoor jungle gym,
windows to allow for cross
ventilation, a steel roof that can
collect rain water, and an outdoor
amphitheater for school events.
“Tsai does a lot of really interesting,
innovative work with containers,”
notes Low.
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Mokena Makeka
Mick Pearce
Zimbabwean architect Mick Pearce
is a leader when it comes to
environmental design. His mission
has always been to create buildings
that are not only sustainable, but
low-maintenance, low-cost and
which blend into their natural
surroundings.
Nature is often a great source of
inspiration for Pearce. One of his
best-known buildings, for instance,
the Eastgate Shopping Center in
Harare, Zimbabwe, employed a
sustainable temperature control
system, using tubes in the walls
to move air through the building,
based on the system employed by
termites. He used a similar model
for CH2, a mixed-use development
in Melbourne, Australia.
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www.mickpearce.com
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Mick Pearce