The site which houses the transitional accommodation facility is located in Pickwick Road, Salt River.
Home to an orphanage and a workshop; an edifice that defines the project footprint. The area is a narrative of a proliferation of the ‘light-industrial/warehouse’ typology and has an identity rooted in cultural significance whilst also adapting to its burgeoning urban fringe, experiencing high volumes of multi-use developments and innovative reuse of buildings, extending and redefining the urban landscape.
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Reinventing traditional safari-style architecture
The new Cheetah Plains game lodge in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve in the Kruger National Park in South Africa, reinvents traditional safari-style architecture to create an altogether new safari experience of nature from within.
Westbury Transformation Development Centre
Can social justice be found through friendly and inclusive design? We think so. The Westbury Transformation Development Centre (TDC) project grapples with the issue of spatial and social justice in a marginalised community.
The 1054 – a pavilion to the street edge
The 1054, strategically named after the property’s ERF number, firmly places itself on Main Road, Walmer, as a pavilion to the street edge. Main Road has been established, as part of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s Spatial Development Framework Plan, as a new business precinct within the bay and is expanding rapidly. Although business is growing along this main feeder route, many houses have merely been face-lifted with a false façade that has really watered down the potential for the strip.
Rebuilding trust is key to turning around struggling construction industry, says Minister
A growing trust deficit between the government and the private sector threatens to derail efforts to turn around the struggling construction sector, but government is intensifying its efforts to build meaningful relationships with the industry. This is according to the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Patricia de Lille, speaking at the 118th Annual General Meeting of the Master Builders and Allied Trades’ Association of the Western Cape (MBAWC).
Giving more than it gets
To expand its physical footprint, MDA Attorneys acquired and rebuilt their office on a prominent site on the corner of West and Riviera in Houghton. Green principles were key from the outset; and yet the results, which include a Net Zero Carbon pilot certification, surpassed all expectations. Here’s how the process unfolded...
Pickwick transitional housing
The City of Cape Town with its partners is steering a precinct-based approach to the delivery of affordable rental in the Woodstock and Salt River area close to the CBD. This involves multifaceted rental housing projects aimed at improving the lives of Cape Town’s disenfranchised residents.
Exxaro head office showcases geotechnical expertise
Challenging dolomitic ground conditions at the site of the new Exxaro head offices for Growthpoint Properties in Centurion, Pretoria, resulted in infrastructure company AECOM collaborating closely with AMA Architects to optimise the building design.
TURNING SALT INTO GOLD
In the Austrian Alps, generations of miners toiled to extract the ancient world’s most valuable resource
GREEN SPEED - Anthony Cross' Love of Sustainable Innovation
The Colorado-based former magazine publisher returns to his love of vehicles with Zaiser Motors and a fresh new look at electric motorcycles.
The Archives
REWIND
McLaren GT – Sideways in Sonoma
An epic excursion through California’s other wine country in the gentlemanly McLaren GT
David Neeleman Has No Fear Of Flying
The founder of JetBlue has overcome some crazy setbacks on his way to becoming the most successful serial airline entrepreneur in history. So why would he let a global pandemic get in the way of launching his latest carrier?
Unending Pandemic. Global Anxiety. Travel Restrictions. Perfect Time To Start An Airline!
David Neeleman, airline savant (think Jetblue) and perpetual optimist, is at it again with a new budget carrier called Breeze
ADVENTURE BLACK BOOK
How do you feel most alive? Whether your adrenaline rushes come from death-defying feats, unusual journeys, or one-of-a-kind meals, these fifty-one Oklahoma spots will have you living life to its fullest all year long.
Snagged anchors and empty gas bottles
Mishaps on a mid-Med adventure
ROOSEVELT DAM AGATE: A Gem Loaded with History
The Roosevelt Dam agate is a very limited-occurrence lapidary material, uncovered during the excavation of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, hence the obvious name of Roosevelt Dam agate.
RED STATE REBELLION
Can Utah—of all places—show voters how to seize power from conservative supermajorities?