Architecture

Architecture should be based on people’s needs

Article Nkgopoleng Moloi - 12 Oct 2018

Development initiatives need to consider the contexts, past and present, in which they occur to ensure human-centred solutions

Buildings with humans at their heart

Article Sean Otoole 1 - 14 Jun 2018

South Africa’s architects may be low-key at Venice but their designs are helping correct social injustices

Slice Of Life: The journey to opportunity

Article Carl Collison - 24 Jul 2017

"Opposed to this colonial idea of what a city is, townships are actually cities"

The architect as an activist

Article Daylin Paul - 6 Apr 2017

By recycling items such as wine bottles, practical yet beautiful spaces are created that can change people’s lives.

Opulent beach houses and the art of the leisure colonist

Article Sean Otoole - 2 Oct 2014

The growing number of extravagant homes built along South Africa's coastlines brings ethics – as well as aesthetics – into question.

The fine art of moulding the essence of cities

Article Sean Otoole 1 - 30 Aug 2014

Architecture, design, innovation and toilets swirled together in separate international initiatives in Durban and Cape Town.

Brick or stone, Mr Ito?

Article Sean O Toole - 7 Aug 2014

Sean O' Toole caught up with award-winning Japanese architect Toyo Ito at the world congress of the International Union of Architects in Durban.

Architectural solutions to slums and earthquakes

Article Sean Otoole - 6 Aug 2014

Presentations on earthquake readiness and slum settlement solutions at a global architecture congress have highlighted contributions to human dignity.

Architecture: A scarce skill monopolised by whites

Article Sean Otoole 1 - 5 Aug 2014

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 competition to rejuvenate Naspers building

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 Feb 2014

Design24 has launched a competition for designers to reimagine the Sanlam Centre in Cape Town, once the tallest building in Africa.

A Tree-canopy walkway with a twist

Article bogdan TagDiv - 6 Feb 2014

The ingenious use of architecture and structural design has created a "boomslang" walkway in Cape Town's Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens.

Cubist symphony in a citadel of corporatism

Article Matthew Krouse - 12 Sep 2013

From the outside, Standard Bank's new building exemplifies the worst that architecture has to offer, but the inside is another story.

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