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Louw/Delport residence in Groenkloof : This house by Mellet and Human Architects is like a high-level penthouse absorbing the unobstructed views of Pretoria from a small, steep, subdivided stand bordering a green belt. The site was terraced to provide a single-level layout. -
The Concierge Boutique Hotel and Freedom Café : When the client acquired four Victorian workers’ cottages, the brief for Architecture Fabrik and Don Albert & Partners was to create a boutique hotel with adjoining studios for creative professionals. -
Investec Regional Head Office : Investec initiated a move from their offices in Durban’s CBD to an office park in Umhlanga in 2006. The brief to Elphick Proome Architects was to provide premium grade offices in RidgesideOffice Park with a sophisticated expression. -
Circa on Jellicoe : By StudioMAS Architects and Urban Designers Circa is more than just an art space; it aims to provide multi-functional semi-public space that alters perspectives of everyday life in the city. It is a sculpture, moulding itself around its contents. -
Voelklip : By Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects, this beach house for a family of four in Hermanus is on a sloping site, offering the opportunity for a split-level living space allowing lounge and dining to be placed above the bedrooms, all with sea views. -
University of the Western Cape Life Sciences : By DHK Architects, the new Life Sciences Department fuses six departments into one development to promote interdepartmental and trans-disciplinary research. The two major components — laboratory and learning centre — are joined by a social nucleus. -
Untamed : By Daffonchio and Associates Architects, Untamed is the result of a collaborative process between a sculptor Dylan Lewis, writer Ian McCallum and architect Enrico Daffonchio. -
Ubuntu Centre : By Field Architecture in association with John Blair Architects and Ngonyama Okpanum Hewitt-Coleman, the Ubuntu Education Fund centre provides health and educational outreach programmes serving the township of Zwide.
Eight architectural projects were winners of Corobrik-SAIA Awards for Excellence this past weekend.
Conferred every two years, these SA architecture awards announced recognize the absolute best in the local architecture industry and are selected from the 55 finalists, 26 of which were winners of Awards for Merit.
“Good architects have the sensibility to design spaces that advance lifestyles, while being sensitive to the environment and mindful of promoting healthy social values,” sais Fanuel Motsepe, president of the South African Institute for Architecture (SAIA).
He believes that architecture in South Africa is cementing its confidence as a global role-player and our architecture has clearly matured, confidently and convincingly in good posture, out of the provincial years of isolation.
Motsepe was joined on the adjudication panel by Peter Kidger from Corobrik, academic architect Philippa Tumubweinee and fashion designer David Tlale.
The awards ceremony formed part of the ArchitectureZA 2012 (AZA2012) festivities.
More news from AZA2012
- AZA2012 comes to Cape Town
The Architecture ZA 2012 Biennial Festival comes to the Cape Town City Hall from Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 September. Kicking off the official Creative Week Cape Town with international speakers including David Adjaye (UK) and Atelier Bow-Wow founders Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kajima (Japan), it is clear that Cape Town is not waiting for 2014 to unroll its design capital status.
- The architect as entrepreneur
Day 1 of AZA2012: James du Plessis is impressed by Thorsten Deckler and Joe Osae-Addo who demand that architects push beyond obvious financial limitations.
- The puppetry of architecture
Day 1 of AZA2012: Marine Leblond is blown away by Handspring Puppet Company’s presentation on the connections between puppetry and architecture.
- Architecture as a mirror
Day 2 of AZA2012: Kibwe Tavares’s multi-disciplinary animations and Rahul Mehrotra’s work in urban India stand out for James du Plessis.
- Architecture for everyone, and elephants
Day 2 of AZA2012: Marine Leblond is enchanted by Indian architect Rahul Mehrotra’s humility, ingenuity and endurance, and just can’t contain her monsoon of praise…
- Bow-Wow and Adjaye
Day 3 of AZA2012: James du Plessis was most impressed with Studio Bow-Wow’s work in fishing villages and David Adjaye’s slave museum in Washington.
- From minimalist to monumental
Day 3 of AZA2012: The day of starchitects went from Bow-Wow’s minimalism to David Adjaye’s monumental, but what about the ‘majority world’, asks Marine Leblond.
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