A haunting meditation on land, memory and rain, Dinokana invites us to rebuild from what was lost
Her designs resist imitation. Her buildings whisper resilience. Mariam Issoufou is giving tradition a powerful, modern voice
The Mail & Guardian interviews authors of a new book on women in a profession in which they have always been underrepresented
A playful take on the sport of theatre by the theatre’s new artistic director, Greg Homann
Opened five years ago, Cape Town’s Zeitz Mocaa was once a storage building for grain
‘People are really noticing the work we do for the community,’ says a former unemployed youngster, now project leader at growing construction enterprise, Marvin Blauw
September is tourism month in South Africa and, as travel continues to open up, Allison Foat explores Réunion Island’s volcanoes, beaches and cuisine
We must leverage local knowledge and materials to develop an architecture uniquely suited to our needs and conditions
African designers have had to fight for their seat at the table. But Decorex Africa is changing that.
Architects, fashion designers and tastemakers descend on Johannesburg’s premium design event
Ofentse Pitse, the head of the first South African all-black orchestra, talks about her love for classical music and the plans she has for her musical ensemble, Anchored Sound
Lesiba Mabitsela’s multidisciplinary project interrogates the influence of modernity through examining the intersections between fashion and architecture
Proper facilities supported by well-researched cultural principles will go a long way to improving the image and perception of the practice of traditional medicine
Well, the pharaonic Voortrekker Monument to be precise for John Davenport
This conversation between Mpho Matsipa and Mamadou Jean-Charles Tall, focusing on bio-climatic architecture in Senegal, is part of the larger African Mobilities project
The pandemic has transformed the way we live, attend school and do our work, and our cities must change accordingly
Italy’s response to the pandemic can be used as a cautionary tale not only medically but also infrastructurally
Development initiatives need to consider the contexts, past and present, in which they occur to ensure human-centred solutions
South Africa’s architects may be low-key at Venice but their designs are helping correct social injustices
"Opposed to this colonial idea of what a city is, townships are actually cities"
By recycling items such as wine bottles, practical yet beautiful spaces are created that can change people’s lives.
The growing number of extravagant homes built along South Africa’s coastlines brings ethics – as well as aesthetics – into question.
Architecture, design, innovation and toilets swirled together in separate international initiatives in Durban and Cape Town.
Sean O’ Toole caught up with award-winning Japanese architect Toyo Ito at the world congress of the International Union of Architects in Durban.
Presentations on earthquake readiness and slum settlement solutions at a global architecture congress have highlighted contributions to human dignity.
The alarm has been raised at a congress for architects over stats revealing that only 24% of built environment professionals are black and 9% female.
Design24 has launched a competition for designers to reimagine the Sanlam Centre in Cape Town, once the tallest building in Africa.
The ingenious use of architecture and structural design has created a "boomslang" walkway in Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens.
From the outside, Standard Bank’s new building exemplifies the worst that architecture has to offer, but the inside is another story.
We went on a walkabout of Standard Bank’s new Jo’burg office to answer that question and bumped into featured artist Marco Cianfanelli.
Chipkin’s work remains seminal, even considering the growing literature on the history of 20th-century South African architecture and urban planning.
Photographer Patrick de Mervelec’s new book is a quest to reveal his adopted city of Johannesburg in a positive light to its own inhabitants.