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PERCHED ON A ROCKY PROMONTORY IN THE SOUGHT-AFTER SEASIDE TOWN OF PLETTENBERG BAY, A CURVACEOUS CONCRETE RESIDENCE ECHOES THE HARD AND SOFT LINES OF ITS EVER-CHANGING VISTA.
Tai Chi for 30 years, and in it, we say, ‘Stand like a mountain, flow like a river,’” says architect Paul Oosthuizen. Yes, he’s passionate about the Chinese martial art, but in this particular instance, he’s using the Tai Chi principle to illustrate his motivation behind the design of a very special beachfront property.
Receding into a thicket of milkwood trees on a rocky outcrop that runs down into the Keurbooms estuary in Plettenberg Bay, the house in question is undeniably sculptural, with an interplay of curved and angular lines, and the raw materiality of a concrete finish.
“The concrete plays on the edge of that seemingly impossible fusion of soft and hard,” says Paul. “You want to be threatened by it because of its industrial, cold persona, but the way it’s been used here, those lines, it’s really seductive.”
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INCLINATION
PERCHED HIGH ON WATERKLOOF RIDGE, THIS PRETORIA HOME TURNS THE CHALLENGE OF AN AWKWARD, WEDGE-SHAPED PLOT INTO THE INSPIRATION FOR ITS ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTION, WITH SHARP ANGLES, BEAUTIFUL NATURAL MATERIALS AND BREATHTAKING VIEWS.
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RESONANCE
PERCHED ON A ROCKY RIDGE IN PRETORIA, THIS BOLD REIMAGINING OF A 1970s HOME FUSES CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS WITH RAW MATERIALS TO CAPTURE THE SPIRIT OF AN URBAN FARMHOUSE.
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THE MOVEABLE FEAST
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Rising Star Philip Kramer
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