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BCEAO Tower (Bamako)

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three blocks east. Just to the east of the BCEAO complex, a park and formal garden mark where the diagonally running "Boulevard du Peuple" reaches the river. By contrast, small market gardens and launching points or river canoes line the edges of the river. With the
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hill from a distance. The distinctive "horns" (or "bat ears") on the building's top, and its deeply incised, vertically variegated facade are typical decorative elements of Sahelian architecture, found on buildings such as the
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architecture of West Africa, as well as that of the soil in the surrounding area. Its tapered shape resembles a
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neighbourhood, where "Avenue Moussa Tavele" meets the waterside boulevard between the two main Bamako bridges:
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and which provides development banking and government financial and currency services in several
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Neo-Sudanic Architecture: Online notes for Dr. Gregory Mann, Columbia University
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region. It sits on the north ("right→") bank of the
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Index



Niger River
Bamako
Mali
West African
Niger River
Bamako
Neo-Sudanic
Sudano-Sahelian
Djenné
Timbuktu
banco
termite
Great Mosque of Djenné
Bamako Market
Central Bank of West African States
BCEAO
Francophone
Commune III
King Fahd Bridge
Martyrs Bridge
Hotel de l'Amitié
Grande Mosquée
"BCEAO Tower - The Skyscraper Center"



ISBN
978-1-84162-077-0

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