Savvy property investors and parents of some of South Africa’s top university students are spearheading a mini property boom in one of Cape Town’s most established suburbs, in the wake of a shortage of affordable top-end accommodation in the city’s leafy Southern Suburbs. Kenilworth, one of the city’s oldest established suburbs, has just taken the [...]
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Increasing global exposure for C&CI film competition winners
Increasing global exposure for C&CI film competition winners The prize-winning entries in the Cement & Concrete Institute’s Moving Space annual short film competition for students are enjoying increasing global exposure. Locally, in September this year, the five prize-winning entries for the ‘Science Friction’-themed 2011 competition were screened at a film festival at the [...]
Exhibition opening: Peter Rich: Learnt in Translation
The KZN Institute for Architecture is thrilled to host this multi-media exhibition tracing the development of Peter Rich’s work to date. The exhibition was created for the Sophia Gray Memorial events in 2011, a prestigious award made once a year to an architect who has made a significant contribution to SA Architecture. The exhibition [...]
Casestudy: Maximum energy savings all year for green school
The situation: Cape Town-based Lunar Products, supplier of LLumar Window Film, was approached by DTM/Spoormaker Consulting Engineering to provide a window film to maintain maximum energy savings all year round. Their client, Gina Mattei, the principal of the Old Mutual Green’scool Early Learning Centre in Pinelands, Cape Town, a large crèche (280 children in a [...]
SAISC participates in bringing out another noteworthy architect
Each year, the Southern African Institute of Steel Construction (SAISC) participates in bringing to South Africa a noteworthy architect. This year, they brought Andrew Tyley of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners famous for their work on iconic structures including: The Millennium Dome (O2), Centre Pompidou, Lloyd’s of London, Terminal 5 Heathrow Airport and Terminal 4 [...]
Award winning Australian architect to talk sustainability
Highly respected and world-renowned Australian architect, Peter Stutchbury, is to present a series of seminars around South Africa from 14 – 17 March 2011. The Presentations will be aimed at professionals of the built environment and students. Peter Stutchbury is the much published, award-winning principal architect of leading architectural firm, Peter Stutchbury Associates. He was [...]
Design with dignity
The architecture of Durban’s newly completed Moses Mabhida Station celebrates local culture while bringing dignity to South Africa’s transport network
By Lynne Yates
Gita Goven
Each month, Leading Architecture puts the spotlight on an industry leader. This month we speak to Gita Goven of ARG Design
Heidi Jaeger
Each issue we quiz a South African interior designer about their past as well as the future of their profession. This month we spoke to Heidi Jaeger of Heidi Jaeger Interior Design Consultants
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