LIBERTY TOWERS ABUJA LIBERTY MERCHANT BANK CORPORATE HEADQUARTER Architectural Representation of a Changing Tradition in Merchant Banks
LIBERTY TOWERS ABUJA LIBERTY MERCHANT BANK CORPORATE HEADQUARTER Architectural Representation of a Changing Tradition in Merchant Banks
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1999-10
Authors
OLAYINKA, ODESOMI STEVENS
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Abstract
The form of any bank building is aimed at boosting the corporate image of the bank and
often times an attempt to showcase the operational efficiency of the bank, this by the use of
architectural elements such as forms, materials and methods. These elements have evolved
over times since the inception of modern banking which have its beginning in Florence, Italy
during the Middle Ages.
The need to blend the functional space requirement, the determinist factor of the
functionality of any architecture stability has made Bank building of today to have attractive and
"friendly" appearance using modern and post modern expresions. As with most other
architectural structures the tendency has been towards the replacement of "Brutalist"
expressions with the more intimate and user friendly forms of The new architecture.
Carefully following this trend, this thesis therefore stries to established as the canon for
the determination the factor(s) manifest in this this articulation and presentation of
representation of the changes traditions in Merchant Bank building.
This involves modern and/or post-modern repression in which stability and aesthetics
reconcile and harmonise with factors of the site at the micro-level, and the desire to achieve a
balanced architectural composition and entity in harmony with its environment at the micro
scale.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST - GRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENT OF THE AWARD OF A MASTER OF
SCIENCE DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE,
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY.
ZARIA, NIGERIA.
Keywords
LIBERTY, TOWERS, ABUJA, LIBERTY, MERCHANT, BANK, CORPORATE, HEADQUARTER, Architectural, Representation, Changing, Tradition, Merchant, Banks