Biomimicry’s Cool Alternative: Eastgate Centre in Zimbabwe The Eastgate Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, typifies the best of green architecture and ecologically sensitive adaptation. The country’s ...

Zimbabwe has always been at the forefront of building green. Wikipedia has described Eastgate Mall in central Harare as "probably the first building in the world to use natural cooling to this ...

Around the same time Pearce was commissioned to design the Eastgate Center, a retail and office building in Harare, Zimbabwe, he spotted some termite mounds on a golf course, dappled with tiny holes.