EVALUATION OF USER’S PERCEPTION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL ATTRIBUTES OF ICONIC BUILDINGS TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OFFICE COMPLEX ABUJA NIGERIA
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ABSTRACTS
Many countries has remain relevant in the geographical world through the architectural product associated with it. Iconic buildings, especially, have represents the culture and the practice in a locality. It has also serves in capacity of economic revitalization, preserve historical events, keeps order and meaning of religious concepts and expresses the evolving architecture of a locality. This means that iconic buildings in its originality, representing the sited community, exhibits the uniqueness of their architecture, thereby, capable of improving the economy of the locality through tourism. Therefore, this study was carried out to evaluate the hypothesis that the iconic buildings in Nigeria does not represent the culture and architecture of the sited locality. A total of 480 copies of questionnaire returned was used to examine twelve selected iconic buildings in two prolific cities of Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria. The originality of the iconic buildings was evaluated through the compass of the sited neighbourhood and inhabitants socio-cultural characteristics. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to establish the relationship between participant neighbourhood and socio-cultural characteristic and the selected iconic buildings. The study concludes that the majority of the architectural landmarks in Nigeria lack cultural and lifestyle representation of the sited communities, thereby fails in its expectation of social and cultural relevance. The implication is that it lacks the uniqueness of local architecture and cultural potentials that is sellable for an economic boost.
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