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Landmark
Olajumoke Adenowo
born 1968
Africa's foremost woman architect, with the Nigerian Stock Exchange among seventy-odd buildings
Landmark is level 2 of 4 in the Nigeria Hall of Fame: a first that opened a door, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.
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She founded her own practice at twenty-six and has put up more than seventy buildings, the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Heritage Bank headquarters among them.
Olajumoke Adenowo was born in 1968 and founded AD Consulting in 1994, aged twenty-six.
She has designed more than seventy projects across government, commercial and corporate work, including the Nigerian Stock Exchange building and the Heritage Bank headquarters, and is consistently named among the most influential women architects working in Africa. She also runs businesses in design, oil and gas and property management.
She has designed more than seventy projects across government, commercial and corporate work, including the Nigerian Stock Exchange building and the Heritage Bank headquarters, and is consistently named among the most influential women architects working in Africa. She also runs businesses in design, oil and gas and property management.
- Wikipedia — Olajumoke Adenowo
- Black Enterprise — Meet the Black female architect behind Nigeria's multi-million dollar real estate projects
- Building & Decor — 50 influential African women architects
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