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Thread Artist Residency | Toshiko Mori Architects

Following its much-celebrated inauguration in March, Thread – Senegal’s new cultural hub, nestled in the heart of the Tambacounda region, 700kms from Dakar – prepares to welcome its first artists in residence this summer. Funded by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the ambitious project responds to a wish to foster creativity within the remote village of Sinthian and surrounding lands, as expressed by respected local leader Dr. Magueye Ba.

Community / Education / Public

5 Informal Schooling Pavillion | colectivoMEL

We thought of this project watching the environment, the sun, the marks of the rain, the wind and the children. In Guiné-Bissau the architecture is made up of two parts, inner space and outer space with transitional space codes. The interior is intimate shelter! It’s a place for protection, dark, windowless and small. It's mass and matter.

Education / Public

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment | SAOTA

This building creates a focus to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment within the University of Cape Town. The elevations appear as tectonic plates in response to Table Mountain. Large openings visually connect the mountain to the learning spaces.

Community / Public / Sport

Rwanda Cricket Stadium | Light Earth Designs

The RCSF is not only building a future for Cricket in Rwanda, but is facilitating reconciliation, and the rebuilding of communities through the essential values of cricket. Light Earth Designs- an integrated architectural and structural consultancy specialized in sustainable technologies and communities- takes us through the design of the first dedicated international cricket ground in Rwanda.

Hospitality / Residential

Nile Safari Lodge | Localworks

Nile Safari Lodge is a luxury eco-lodge located on the southern bank of the River Nile overlooking Murchison Falls National Park. At one time one of Uganda's best-known lodges, Nile Safari Lodge was showing signs of its age and Localworks was commissioned to lead a complete rebuild and upgrade of the facility to bring it in line with changing requirements in the hospitality industry.

Education

Northpine Technical High School | Malan Vorster

Northpine Technical High School was commissioned by the Provincial Administration of the Western Cape. It comprises central administration offices, large hall, laboratories, workshops and classrooms for 1500 learners, all surrounding a central assembly courtyard.

Residential

Mabote House | Nicholas Plewman Architects

Mabote celebrates the Waterberg through its materiality and functionality. The residence nurtures a sense of natural escapism with its seamless…

Commercial

Casablanca Finance City Tower | Morphosis Architects

Casablanca Finance City Tower is the first project to be realized in the newly-established Casablanca Finance City (CFC)—a transformative new business district currently being developed in the Anfa District southwest of the historic city center.

Calling Academy School | SALT Architects

August 25, 2022

Calling Education is an NPO that was established out of identifying the need for affordable top-quality education as an imperative to South Africa’s restoration. Their first campus, rolling out their unique funding model, is Calling Academy Stellenbosch, which is located on a bucolic plot bordering the Polkadraai Road between Stellenbosch and Kuilsriver. The site was identified and set aside by the previous

House M | Elphick Proome Architects

June 18, 2022

The relocation of a young family to the owner’s childhood community prompted our client to build a new house on a partially platformed site in Westville, Durban RSA. A substantial piece of land was procured with a view to developing additional houses in the long term, offering extraordinary views of the Palmiet Nature Reserve and the opportunity for their children to

Sassen Residence | SALT Architects

June 11, 2022

Nestled in a valley next to the Disa River, this virgin plot of land is surrounded by various peaks of Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. The larger area is known as Hout Bay, with the Afrikaans word “hout” meaning wood, referencing a large number of Yellow Wood trees the original Dutch Settlers found in the area

Rubela Park Offices | Architects of Justice

May 22, 2022

In mid-2015 AOJ was commissioned to design a new office building for Caldas Engineering, a supplier of crusher parts to the mining industry. The company had acquired a 4300m² rectangular property which had more yard space than their current premises (which they sorely required) but unfortunately did not have any quality office space on it. The starting point for the design

Tuynhuys Apartment Building | Robert Silke & Partners

April 23, 2022

Tuynhuys is a futuristic new block of 47 new apartments in the heart of Cape Town’s old city legal district – directly opposite the Cape High Court. Set in a stoic row of Victorian and Cape Dutch commercial buildings, this playful and exuberant (but never irreverent) new residential building proves that innovative modern high-rises are indeed possible (and even desirable) in

Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital | Sheppard Robson + John Cooper Architecture + GAPP + Ruben Reddy Architects

March 15, 2022

UK-based architecture firms Sheppard Robson and John Cooper Architecture (JCA) collaborated in 2009 to win an international design competition for the new Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital in Johannesburg. The facility will employ 150 paediatric doctors and 450 nurses. Sheppard Robson and JCA, responsible for the concept design of the hospital, were joined by local architects GAPP and Ruben Reddy. GAPP Architects

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