Ife - The Secretariat 1968

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The Secretariat, housing the university administration, is one of the three buildings - together with the Assembly Hall and Library - which define the formal main piazza. Its point office block and service core provide a strong vertical landmark to the whole campus. It rises on simple massive columns above an L-shaped building which contains the foyer, banks, exhibition spaces, bookshop and post office providing a continually functioning and lively social core for the campus, in contrast to the repetitive floors above. The two arms of the "L" embrace an open court enclosed on its eastern side by a pergola leading to the humanities buildings, which terminates with a sculptured gate, descending to street level. The Secretariat extension provides a mirrored office block, to the east of the existing block, to form an integrated staggered tower with the addition of council and senate chambers. The Secretariat complex as a whole will complete and frame the lineal elevation with Humanities and Education to the eastern boundary of the main core.