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[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

1. A friend kindly sent me a short clip of architect David Adjaye extolling the virtues of Bank Square, the new HQ of the Bank of Ghana that he designed for contractor GoldKey to build.

2. Since the imposing building divides opinion on its elegance and beauty, I was very keen to hear what the designer himself had to say.

3. It was surreal!

4. I heard the architect talk about how when he saw the other designs entered into the competition by rival bidders, he literally burst out laughing. He said that his competitors had thrown up all manner of "Dubai like" glass and steel buildings that look like "dancing" structures.

5. His choice of design was heavily informed by the deeper symbolism of what the new Bank of Ghana HQ stood for. He had concluded that the apex body managing a nation's wealth cannot look transient. It must project absolute permanence and ascendance.

6. He thus bypassed lightweight design trends of the current era in favor of heavy, earth-bound stone to project regulatory power and systemic stability. In fact, he said he would have done a ramped-earth tower if he had the chance! And then, with a glint in his eye and a chuckle rolling down his throat, threatened to build one somewhere very soon.

7. So, why surreal?

8. Regular readers may recall that I have worried in the past about the cost overruns during the building's development. I think that by the time the various features that were suspended to get it over the finishing line are added, it may top $600 million. But that was not what jolted me. At all.

9. It is the uncanny semblance between the architectural logic behind BoG's Bank Square and that behind a cluster of buildings built between 1917 and 1973 for a financial institution in Rhode Island that used to finance hospitals in Providence.

10. The cluster of buildings then came to be taken over by banks. One was eventually donated to the Rhode Island School of Design, which is how I came to know their story in the first place. You see, I had once considered pursuing the artistic portion of my creative passions.

11. When you look at the Sovereign Banking Tower (as the main tower in the cluster aforementioned is sometimes called when not being called "One Financial Plaza") and its adjacent sister buildings, and then flip your glance over to Bank Square in Accra, you can't help but gasp.

12. Exactly the same thinking that drove Adjaye many decades after and in a totally different cultural setting can be found in the design language of John Carl Warnecke & Associates. It is manifested in the rectangular prism with beveled vertical edges adorning the skyline of Providence.

13. See attached images (incl one of the rejected "dancing" designs).

14. What is at work here? I think it is the same spirit that drove both Newton and Leibniz working oceans apart to independently invent the calculus: creative telepathy.

15. There is a bond that binds all feats of intellect regardless of culture, context, and circumstance.

[Stanley @1real_Stanley]

Buying food outside isn’t safe!!!!!❌❌❌
She found out that the meat in her soup she bought from an unknown food vendor had a mortuary number on it, meaning the meat was from the morgue. Food vendors are now using corpśe as meats in their soups💔 Nipa nam paa in light soup😳

[JoyNews @JoyNewsOnTV]

US Court backs extradition of former MASLOC CEO Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu to Ghana to serve a 10-Year sentence for financial crimes.

https://t.co/9G0G6OYDLw

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[Yawa @DontdoYawa]

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Richard Nii-Armah Queye Ex-Houseboy swears an oath and drop serious secrets from his 10 years of living in Mr Richard Nii Armah Quaye’s house.

[AYARIGA OSMAN ESQ. @o_ayariga]

How do we settle this matter?

[Kwaku 🇬🇭 @kwaku_rafiki]

The contract between Government and Zipline was to fly essential medications

An audit of what Zipline has been doing over the years is that they’ve been mainly using it to fly non-essential medications.

We pay $100,000 every month per center to Zipline to fly condoms.

[The Asante Nation @Asante_nation]

Wow, she is a student of Bolga Girls SHS, and she came to participate in the Street Art Exhibition at Asokwa. She did a very beautiful artwork.

Well done Lady 👌

[Oku @oku_yungx]

These are quite heavy punches 👏👍

[Dr Sneaker Nyame @_sneakernyame]

The goal is to have money and be happy. Kelvin Okyere is a living testimony.

[Richard Nii-Armah Quaye @niiarmahquaye]

Birthdays are better when shared.

To celebrate mine this year, I’ll be gifting 1,000 followers GOLD tablets from Ghana Gold Board jewelry, randomly selected across all my official platforms.

A little gold, as a thank you for the love and support.

[Lewan 🇬🇭👻 @Lewan_____]

This is real
This nor be AI
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[Ifeoma C. N @__iffff]

These only look decorative until you see the rebar.

[Oku @oku_yungx]

Whoever edited this WWE tho? 😅😅😅

[Big Paradise @Bigg_paradise]

You see err, there’s this thing about Stonebwoy I can’t even keep mute about. He’s so talented when it comes to the work he does. His pen game chale!!!

[Dr Sneaker Nyame @_sneakernyame]

Ghana just locked in a $2B deal with Jubilee Partners to lower gas prices and a $1.5B deal with Sankofa Partners to boost supply.

[a.wuah_ @dizzy10_]

What did i just watch😂

[ajisafeolumuyiwa @ajisafeolumuyi2]

Construction details to learn.

[TrendsGist @Trendsgistt]

Headucator confesses how he got into 'trumu trumu' in SHS, revealing he lured many boys into it.

[KALYJAY @gyaigyimii]

Sammy Gyamfi 👏👏👏

[WithAlvin 🇬🇭 @withAlvin__]

TRENDING 🚨: December in Accra — Diaspora Woman Captures Aerial View Of Accra On CrossOver Night in Ghana 🇬🇭

You will be surprised what she captured 👀