Wellington Airport is located on the south cost of the North Island. Facing directly onto the wind swept Cook Strait, the coastline is extremely wild, rugged and exposed. As a major regional hub, Wellington Airport is expanding its international capacity with long haul flights to Asia. The architectural brief was for an extension to the [...]
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RSS feed for this sectionP&G Moves Into New Green Building
Environmental sustainability standards are playing an increasingly important role in decision making for companies across the globe. The decision to relocate the Procter & Gamble (P&G) South and East Africa head office was no exception. P&G, the global manufacturer of leading consumer brands such as Pampers, Gillette and Pantene, has relocated to the innovatively [...]
Bathroom blue
A luxury bathroom is every homeowner’s dream, as is the dream of travelling to far and exotic places. With this bathroom, homeowners can have the best of both – a gorgeous contemporary bathroom space, inspired by the breathtaking beauty of the Greek island of Santorini. “A dreamy amalgamation of quintessential Greek design, with an über [...]
Afro alpine
The challenge presented to the architects for the Gondola Café in the Maluti Mountains in Lesotho was to unify a resort with scattered infrastructure. The focus was spread across a couple of buildings, with the snow slope too far from the restaurant, leaving visitors tired and hungry. The solution was a new café on [...]
Industrial mystique
The old Thesen Sawmill, a disused power station in Knysna, a disused power station in Knysna that was part of the old Thesen Sawmill, has recently been transformed into the Turbine Hotel, a modern hotel which draws inspiration from the building’s past The brief presented to Mike Louw of CMAI Architects was unique – [...]
El Molino, a piece of Barcelona’s memory
El Molino is a theater of reference in Barcelona, Spain. With over one hundred years of existence, has become a cultural institution and sentimental place for the citizens. Listed as a historical and artistic heritage of the city, it was the icon of the golden age of music hall and now evokes a way [...]
Striking roofing for 5-star landmark
The new Royal Marang Hotel, “home” for the England squad during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, has now resumed normal duty along the popular Sun City region tourist route, its striking roofing a feature of the five-star landmark. More than 120 000 Technicrete Bold Double Roman profile roof tiles in brown, with matching round [...]
Roadside retaining walls
Traffic interchanges are structures that use grade separation with ramps to facilitate rapid flow of traffic in various directions without directly crossing any other traffic stream. When traffic increases, interchanges become unavoidable, they cost a fortune and often have to be squeezed into a tight space. The result is that creative engineering design has to [...]
Mall of the North set to shine
The long awaited Mall of the North in Polokwane is fast taking shape with construction progressing at a healthy pace. The mall, which is being built on the crossing of the R81 or Giyani/Modjadjiskloof road and the N1 bypassing Polokwane, is a R1.2 billion investment by Resilient Property Income Fund, Flanagan & Gerard and Moolman [...]
The Saxon opens new luxury villas
The Saxon Boutique Hotel, Villas and Spa, voted the best Boutique Hotel in the World since 2001 and one of the “Leading Hotels of the World” last night officially opened the doors to its newly constructed five-star Saxon Villas. A well-established favourite amongst leisure and business travellers alike, The Saxon’s expansion has more than [...]
Latest Issue - May/June 2012
In This Issue:
- The Alexander Forbes head office campus by Paragon Architects
- The New Jerusalem Children’s Home by 4D+A Architects
- The Quarterdeck by CHT Architects
- The 2012 Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards
- Paragon Architects profile
