sustainabilityPlate 050 · Harare, Zimbabwe

Eastgate Centre

An office that learned from termites how to breathe, using almost no air-conditioning.

1996 · Mick Pearce · Africa

The chamber score

The Hebrides

Felix Mendelssohn · 1830

A building that learned from termites. Mendelssohn's cave still breathes for it.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Pearce's Eastgate, a landmark of biomimetic passive cooling.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Eastgate Centre through sustainability — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Eastgate Centre was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.