Courtesy of Metropolis Design
Architect: Metropolis Design
Location: Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
Project Team: Jon Jacobson, Jenny Bath, Shani Schabort
Client: Cape Dream Stay
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Metropolis Design
© Adam Letch
Architects: GREGWRIGHT architects
Location: Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Adam Letch
Cape Town Stadium outside, © Bruce Sutherland
The stadiums built by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa received the IOC/IAKS Award on 26 October 2011. In the context of the international Trade Fair for Amenity Areas, Sports and Pool Facilities (FSB), the International Olympic Committee and the International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS) selected the Cape Town stadium for first prize and the Nelson Mandela Bay stadium in Port Elizabeth for third prize in the “stadiums for competitions and events” category. The awards were received by Hubert Nienhoff, gmp partner in charge of the offices in Berlin, Frankfurt and Rio de Janeiro. More information on the projects after the break. read more »
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Architects: SAOTA
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Mechanical Engineers: Spoormaker & Partners
Electrical Engineers: MAC Consulting Engineers (Pty) Ltd
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 1,005 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of SOATA
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Architects: SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Interior Design: ANTONI ASSOCIATES
Structural Engineer: Tony Cooksey Structural Engineers
Project Area: 1,099 sqm
Photographs: SAOTA
© COA
Architect: COA with Fuchs, Wacker Architekten
Location: Big Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
Engineer: Edifice Consultants
Contractor: de Rooy Construction
Project Area: 535 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: COA
© Wieland Gleich
Architects: Luis Mira Architects
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Project Team: Luis Mira, Julia Hundermark
Structural Engineer: Jeffares & Green Consulting Engineers
Mechanical Engineer: Sutherland Engineers
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 335 sqm
Photographs: Wieland Gleich, Luis Mira Architects
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Architects: COA – Architecture and Design
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Project area: 540 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: COA – Architecture and Design
© Jess Field
The Ubuntu Center provides pediatric HIV testing and treatment, counseling, education, and community empowerment. The design is focused on de-stigmatization and normalization of HIV testing and treatment. It provides access to a state-of-the-art facility in a beleaguered post-apartheid community. The design is a model for sustainable development that begins with environment and extends to the preservation of life.
Architect: Field Architecture
Location: 5 Qe Qe Street, Zwide, 6200, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Project Team: Stan Field (Lead Architect, SAIA, RIBA, Int’l Assoc. AIA), Jess Field (Lead Architect, Assoc. AIA), Mark Johnson (AIA), Jeff Pilotte, Andy Lin
Local Project Architects: John Blair Architects in association with NOH Architects
Project Manager: John Blair, Tim Hewitt-Coleman
Interior Design: Field Architecture
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer: Clinkscales Maughan-Brown
Structural and Civil Engineer: Iliso Consulting
General Contractor: SBT Construction (East Cape)
Landscape Architect: John Elliott, Matt Elliott
Lighting Design: Field Architecture
Acoustic Consultant for Hall: Ivan Kadey Design
Mosaic Mural: Dolla Sapeta
Networking and Communication Equipment: Cisco Systems
Project Area: 21,000 sqf
Photographs: Jess Field, Jon Riordan
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The Karoo Wilderness Center represents a significant shift in perspective and practice, sponsoring and provoking the learning, dialogue, and action necessary to redefine the consequence of human inhabitation on the land. The Center aims to re-establish the connection between the built and natural world as one that is mutually beneficial. Forming an exemplary model of sustainability, the Center generates its own energy, harvests its own water, processes its own waste, and provides thermal comfort using no municipal water or power. Learning from the continuum of life in the Karoo, the architecture of the Center provides a lasting connection to the landscape, and fosters an understanding of the interdependence of ecosystem health, and human well being.
Architect: Field Architecture
Location: Karoo, South Africa
Project Team: Stan Field, Jess Field (Design Principals), Andy Lin, Erik Bloom, Chris Graesser
Structural Engineers: Arup
Conservation Management: Wilderness Foundation South Africa
Environmental Impact Analysis: Integrated Environmental Management
Project Area: 21,800 sqf
© Stefan Antoni
Architects: SAOTA (Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects) – Stefan Antoni, Richard Townsend, Holger Deppe
Location: Yzerfontein, South Africa
Project area: 828 sqm
Project year: 2006
Photographs: Stefan Antoni
© Wieland Gleich & Karl Beath
Architects: SAOTA (Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects) – Stefan Antoni, Philip Olmesdahl, Tamaryn Hammond
Location: Camps Bay, South Africa
Interior design: Antoni Associates – Mark Rielly, Ashleigh Gilmour
Project area: 676 sqm
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Wieland Gleich & Karl Beath
Architects: Van Der Merwe Miszewski Architects
Location: Cape Winelands, South Africa
Structural Engineer: Henry Fagan Associates
Quantity Surveyor: Bernard James and Partners
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Van Der Merwe Miszewski Architects
© Stefan Rademan
Architects: KUBE Architecture – Stefan Rademan, Simon Mountford
Location: Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, South Africa
General Contractor & Project Manager: Venture Projects
Structural Engineer: Gadomsky Structural Engineers
Solar Installation: Solarzone in conjunction with Florad
Project area: 360 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Stefan Rademan
© A2 Studio
The German magazine AIT invited 100 selected architecture and interior design offices across Europe to redesign the ‘ONO’ chair produced by the Dietiker company. The newly designed chairs will be exhibited in the context of a road show in the AIT-Architektur Salons Hamburg, Munich, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Stuttgart. The main auction of the chairs will talk place in spring 2010. The revenues generated through this auction will support the Langa Township in Cape Town, South Africa. Hofman Dujardin shared with us their entry into the competition, their OYES chair, as an urban charity for city. More images and architect’s description after the break.
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© Julian Abrams
Architects: RUFproject
Lead Architect & Designer: Sean Pearson
Location: Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa
Client: Nike South Africa
Local Project Manager: SIP Project Managers Ltd.
Project area: 54,800 sqm
Photographs: Allan James, Julian Abrams
© Antonio Zaninovic
Architect: Antonio Zaninovic Architecture Studio
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Project Architect: Antonio Zaninovic
Interior Design: Rees Roberts + Partners LLC
Landscape Design: Rees Roberts + Partners LLC
Project Area: 4,500 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Antonio Zaninovic, Nikolas Michael
© John Hodgkiss
The Optic Garden functions as a sculpture on a traffic island celebrating the 2010 World Cup and marking one of the major routes to the inner-city match venues. The project was commissioned by the Johannesburg Development Agency as part of a citywide public art program leading up to the 2010 World Cup.
Be sure to take a look at the video, drawings, and photographs following the break.
Architects: 26’10 south Architects
Project Team: Anne Graupner, Thorsten Deckler, Stephen Reid, Carl Jacobs, Sue Groenewald
Artist: Maja Marx
Photographs: John Hodgkiss
Architect: Pietro Russo – Ecomo
Location: Franschhoek, South Africa
Client: Acacia
Contractor: Tim Wolf – Ecomo
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Pietro Russo
Courtesy of Vivid Architects
South Africa-based Vivid Architects shared with us their project “Crystal Towers”. The development comprises a 5 star hotel, 90 luxury residences, a standalone office building, and a 80m steel suspension foot bridge. More images after the break. read more »
Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago’s Waterways / Jeanne Gang
Our friends from Studio Gang Architects recently sent us their new book Reverse Effect. ”The culmination of a yearlong collaboration between Studio Gang Architects and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Reverse Effect is dedicated to exploring the importance of…
We recently got to preview the newest addition to In DETAIL’s typological series, Work Environments: Spatial concepts, Usage strategies, Communications. It will be available next month (August 2011), and it is great for anyone who is interested in improving…
We recently had the pleasure of having Steven Ehrlich visit our office and give a talk about his work. He is as personable as his work is fascinating. He left us with a recently published book of his work…
