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The local spatial development framework (LSDF) for the Adam Tas Corridor (or Stellenbosch Corridor) published by Stellenbosch Municipality, aims to bring hope and create sustainable growth.
If you had to choose an international city to move to, which would you choose? The latest global liveability Index is ‘back to normal’ after the impact Covid-19 had on the 2020 and 2021 index. Vienna is back in the first place.
Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has won this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, becoming the first African architect to win the prize. This award is considered architecture’s most significant lifetime achievement award.
The brutal invasion of Ukraine is sending shudders around the world. Unfortunately, Ukraine’s cultural heritage has also been damaged and destroyed by Russian forces. This includes museums, archives, brick Byzantine churches, cathedrals, monasteries, futuristic...
United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) regularly releases reports on the extent of climate change. The latest report, from March 2022, on Mitigation of Climate Change contains dismal news and simple steps to counteract the rise of greenhouse levels.
Built in 1691, Steenenbrug, alias Plankenbrug, alias the Adam Tas Bridge at Bosman’s Crossing, was the first access to Stellenbosch across the Kromme River, now known as Plankenbrug river. Earlier this year, an intergenerational group gathered on the banks of the river to say farewell to this remarkable but humble single-lane bridge.
Nomos redesigned an existing car repair shop to become an affordable house.
The 15 Minute City model is the third project to ever win the Obel Award, which is an international prize presented to architectural projects that contribute to society. The model was developed by Professor Carlos Moreno and his team.
Dezeen’s architecture project of the year is awarded to Lina Ghotmeh, who designed a 13-storey apartment building for the harbour area of Beirut, her place of birth. Stone Garden “portrays architecture's capacity to act as a healing tool and active player in building...
Dezeen’s architecture project of the year is awarded to Lina Ghotmeh, who designed a 13-storey apartment building for the harbour area of Beirut, her place of birth. Stone Garden “portrays architecture's capacity to act as a healing tool and active player in building...
Dezeen awarded the Design Project of the Year to Silo, a creative branding and design agency. Silo designed a bicycle parking garage outside The Hague Central Station, Netherlands.
Dezeen (an online architecture, interiors and design magazine based in London) awarded the Design Project of the Year to Silo, a creative branding and design agency. Silo designed a bicycle parking garage outside The Hague Central Station, Netherlands. According to...
Those who are artists themselves and appreciate art will know that titanium white is a pigment derived from titanium oxide. Until recently all believed that titanium white was discovered in a laboratory in New York. However, researchers recently discovered titanium...
New York architecture firm has a vision to “replace big retail spaces with local shops, cafes, housing, art galleries, etc. that are accessible and inclusive. ODA does not want to perpetuate inequality and hopes to create ground-level spaces that serve everyone, not...
With the Covid-19 pandemic still taking center stage in society, it is understandable that people can be wary of microbic organisms, while they forget about those organisms that are useful. To demonstrate this, bacteria Serratia ficaria (SH7) stepped up in society,...
As an architect, Michael Eliason advocates for dense, green, bike-friendly, family-friendly cities with ample social housing and open space. He sees five influential trends in liveable and innovative cities. 1. Brownfields to eco districts European cities have been...
UNESCO recently announced that the city of Liverpool has lost her status as world heritage site. With this announcement the focus is on the reciprocal relationship between development, heritage and culture as well as economic interests. Economic progress may often be...
The 2021 Liveability Ratings of cities worldwide is significantly different from ratings done in previous years. This is due to the impact of the pandemic. Auckland in New Zealand had the highest ranking according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) liveability...
Mayat Hart Architects and Heritage Consultants from Johannesburg recently won in the category Educating Practices at the international 16th Docomono Rehabilitation Award (DRAW21). This category refers to pioneering studies and low budget interventions that have...
The Modern Heritage of Africa (MoHoA) foundation that is based at the University of Cape Town is planning a Symposium in September 2021 on modern heritage in Africa and a second symposium at the University College of London in 2022 on Modern Heritage in the...
In Africa one can also experiment with curricula and organizational structures more so than what is possible in Europe. She also emphasizes the importance to embrace diversity and at the same time to acknowledge individual skills and habits. However, she points out that people do not know how to do this and that “civicness” should be taught.
Stellenbosch Municipality recently appointed Katherine Robinson as Senior Heritage Planner. She joined the Department of Planning and Economic Development in February 2021. Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation asked Katherine a few questions about her interest in...
Lauren Buchanan, newly elected chair of the Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation, sees the Foundation become more widely and pro-actively involved in the broader community of Stellenbosch. Lauren has been on the Foundation's executive committee for the past three years...
In the past years, heritage and its reciprocal relationship with society have been in the news and also circulates in everyday conversations. Again, so when the recent fire in Cape Town destroyed amongst others the University of Cape Town’s Jagger Reading Room and...
In April the restoration of the Bloemfontein City Hall, which was gutted by a fire in 2017, was completed. Mangaung Metro Municipality formed a task team with Roodt Architects to manage the restoration project. Architect Anton Roodt explained that the restored...
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...
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...
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....
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In this article Janine Loubser and Maaike te Kulve asks ‘How did the influence of networked media on the contestation of heritage develop from specific cases like #RhodesMustFall to current processes of “Woke Iconoclasm” and “Cancel Culture”, and what can be expected next?’
