by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | May 26, 2021 | Forum, News
Charles and Dorothy Johnman were conservationists at heart (www.johnman.co.za). They wished that their house in Herte street to be a home for music and that future generations will also enjoy the garden. When Dorothy died in 1995, she left her house and beautiful...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | May 26, 2021 | Awards, Forum, News
Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation nominated a building in Lanquedoc for Provincial Heritage status. Several generations have shared their lives in various ways with the Old Shop, as it is affectionately called. This building was designed in the late 1800’s by Sir...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | May 25, 2021 | Awards, Forum, News
The 2021 Pritzker Prize, architecture’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize, to Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal underlines a gradual, ongoing shift in architecture. Lacaton and Vassal’s design philosophy includes the Never Demolish principle, which they coined....
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | May 6, 2021 | Heritage
Article by ∗Joanne Gibson, published on Winemag.co.za On a circa 1688-1690 map that shows the oldest Stellenbosch farms in the names of their first owners, including Roelof Pasman of Rustenberg and Gerrit ‘Grof’ Visser of Blaauwklippen, it’s hard to miss two tracts of...
