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Projects

04 Nov 2015

Breathing Life Into Eco Safari Design

By Staff Writer

Life Interiors and Architecture have designed a riverside lodge in Botswana that combines traditional safari style with modern eco features.
28 Oct 2015

Pretoria To Get R2,5-billion Super Shopping Centre

By Staff Writer

The mixed use Rainbow Junction megaproject is set to become the capital city’s beacon property development – complete with an iconic high-rise viewing tower.
21 Oct 2015

Community Service

By Staff Writer

The new Hermanus Community Day Centre attempts to embrace its users with a humane and dignified architecture, developed closely with the Department of Transport and Public Works of the Western Cape Government. The design reflects references to its context and a hierarchy of comfortable, warm, friendly and pleasant spaces internally and externally, from the intensely...
21 Oct 2015

Classical Revival

By Staff Writer

The old Reader’s Digest building in Cape Town has been reimagined to become home to one of the city’s leading advertising schools. We spoke to architect Renato Graca from EHH Architects who undertook the makeover of the new Vega campus.
21 Oct 2015

Building Blocks

By Staff Writer

Melville’s unique new shipping container mall, 27Boxes, is not only a novel concept – it makes economic sense on many levels too. We spoke to the developers, Citiq, about their passion for container architecture.
28 Sep 2015

Bloemfontein’s Historic Pool To Be Restored

By Staff Writer

Arthur Nathan Swimming Pool in Bloemfontein, one of the city’s most historic recreational landmarks, is to be restored by SMEC’s Bloemfontein office. Built in 1906 and closed since the 1990s, the pool and its historic buildings will be restored to its former glory.
19 Aug 2015

Bryanston Building Boom Gains Momentum

By Staff Writer

The Johannesburg suburb of Bryanston is experiencing an upsurge in the number of businesses moving to the area, resulting in an increase in office developments currently under construction. In recent years there has been a noticeable increase in demand from businesses seeking to relocate and these are adding to numerous existing office buildings along Main...
17 Aug 2015

Bringing Life To Newtown

By Staff Writer

In what promises to be a game-changing urban development in downtown Johannesburg, Newtown’s Old Potato Shed is currently being transformed into an edgy ‘steam punk’ inspired restaurant, while the historic old Edwardian Gentlemen’s Washrooms are being remade as The Gentlemen’s Arthouse cocktail bar.
18 Jun 2015

Drawn By Man, Designed By Nature

By Staff Writer

In a landscape where there are no marks of human intervention, ‘scalelessness’ becomes the impetus for an imaginative architectural response.
17 Jun 2015

Vitrex Clads Arabian Totems

By Staff Writer

In an order calling for extensive custom-design and production, Vitrex – South Africa’s leading producer of enamel steel products for architectural applications – supplied the vitreous enamel steel panels and associated brackets for three new towering totems erected outside the King Abdullah Football Stadium in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The 60 000-seater King Abdullah...
17 Jun 2015

Clean And Cool

By Staff Writer

Popular roofing material, Clean COLORBOND™ steel with Thermatech™ solar reflectance technology coating, was used in the construction of Africa’s Greenest Hotel which is also one of the most sustainable designs in the world.
17 Jun 2015

A Dose Of Good Design

By Staff Writer

The newly built Du Noon Community Health Centre by Martin Kruger Associates proposes a new architectural typology for community health care facilities that draws on urban design principles. While access to health care services is ensconced in the Bill of Rights of the South African Constitution, access to good architecture is not.

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