A university study has highlighted the challenges facing the urban poor – and proposed ways to make the best of all they are likely to get.
The Cape Town theatre’s grand plans might just be an unrealistic dream.
A famous landmark has taken on a new lease on life since being returned to the family whose patriarch built it.
If architects saw cities as part of the ‘self’ they would create places that are kind to their inhabitants, writes Lisa Johnston.
Eamon Allan takes a walk through Jo’burg suburbia with Flo Bird, heritage champion of the great north.
It is not surprising that so many Capetonians were distraught about the collapse of the Athlone Power Station’s two cooling towers in 2010.
The Wits Art Museum collection is as vast and complex as the building, which incorporates a former petrol station and car dealership.
Newtown was the midwife to Jo’burg’s cultural rebirth, at least in the city. But its supporters will not hear that the cultural precinct has failed
If there is a metaphor for a dead Jo’burg, it is the old gasworks in Cottesloe. Now it is about to be reinvented as one of the city’s go-to places.
Ruann van der Westhuizen’s plans for a bathhouse to be built at the public-transport interchange precinct in Marabastad are certainly unusual.
A annual publication highlights the role of design in a globalised climate.
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/ 23 December 2009
Figures released recently rank South Africa 81 out of 96 countries when measuring the ratio of architects to the general population.
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/ 6 November 2009
Jo Noero’s exhibition looks at the social dimension
from which architecture cannot detach itself.
Brent Meersman reports.
In urban terms architecture’s most complex and simultaneously most basic function is as the unit of urban strategy.
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/ 7 November 2008
Anthea Buys reports on a project that could revitalise the city’s cultural landscape.
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/ 30 September 2008
Nude hippies, big blobs, stunning dog pounds — is the 2008 architecture biennale too wacky for its own good? Jonathan Glancey reports.
KwaZulu-Natal-born Bridgette Gasa’s passion for architecture and the built environment was ignited during her matric year.
The world’s most visited museum will have Europe’s biggest purpose-built exhibition space for an Islamic art collection.
His billowing, writhing designs have made Frank Gehry one of the most celebrated architects in
the world. He talks to Jonathan Glancey.
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/ 29 February 2008
Architect Luyanda Mpahlwa describes the process of creating and realising new housing solutions on Mitchells Plain.