Bookshop House was built in 1973 by G. Cappa and designed by architects Godwin and Hopwood
with special sun-screening and windows to reduce the heat load on the
air-conditioning. it is still one of the few buildings in Nigeria to
have a facade correctly designed to exclude direct sunlight between 9am
and 5pm with a consequent astonishing 75% saving in air-conditioning
loading on the office floors.
Herbert Macaulay was a civil engineer and one of Nigeria’s pioneer Nationalists. He was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi-Crowther, who translated the Bible into the Yoruba language and is now buried at Christ Church Cathedral.
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