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- 1 2 Donald Leslie Johnson; Donald Langmead (13 May 2013). Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Routledge. p. 332. ISBN 1-136-64056-8.
- ↑ "Royal State Palace". Tange. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
- ↑ Nnamdi Elleh (8 December 2016). Architecture and Politics in Nigeria: The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016. Taylor & Francis. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-317-17935-1.