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Accessibility

Accessibility and mobility in towns and cities are international issues and increasingly so becoming burning issues to solve for town planners as more and more people flock from rural areas to larger towns and cities. Accessibility and mobility can never be solved in...

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Adam Small festival in Pniël is highly recommended

Adam Small festival in Pniël is highly recommended

Trevor Manual provides the audience with a wake-up call The recent (21 – 23 Februarie) Adam Small festival in Pniël impressed audiences with a unique and varied programme, which was compiled by Darryl Earl Davids and presented by the Pniël museum. Highlights included...

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The sweetness of an intelligent design remains

The sweetness of an intelligent design remains

Benjamin Franklin presumably said that "the bitterness of poor quality remains long after we forget the sweetness of a low price". This saying is turned upside down in the design of a family home which won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 's award for...

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Books

Books

Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of an African Factory A book that follows the story of a Cape Town building that housed a clothing manufacturer, Rex Trueform, received its second prestigious award. Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of an African Factory, by Ilze...

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Stirling prize awarded for community housing in Norwich

Stirling prize awarded for community housing in Norwich

Goldsmith Street, a community housing project in Norwich, wins this year's prestigious Stirling Prize for British Architecture. This is the first time in history that the prize has been awarded for social housing – or for a street, according to some commentators. The...

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68 Jonkershoek House by Gallagher Lourens Architects

68 Jonkershoek House by Gallagher Lourens Architects

“We want light, light and more light, we want to be aware of the mountains around us and we want to still enjoy relaxing under the huge Tipuana tree in the back garden. We live close to the earth, we are not clinical and we prefer the texture to color.” The brief was...

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Explore the potential of the Braak

Explore the potential of the Braak

The mayor of Stellenbosch, Adv. Gesie van Deventer invited the inhabitants of the wider Stellenbosch area in a recent newsletter to “begin a public participation process so that we can gather the inputs and the suggestions from the broader community about how the...

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Atterbury moves into historic building in Dorp street

Atterbury moves into historic building in Dorp street

La Gratitude Manor House in Dorp street, one of the most prominent and second oldest building in Stellenbosch, became the head office of developer Atterbury. La Gratitude is also a national monument. According to its Western Cape development head, Gerrit van den Berg,...

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New World Heritage sites

New World Heritage sites

The World Heritage Committee recently attributed world heritage status to 29 new sites so that the list of world heritage sites now contains 1121 entries from around the world. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives of the United Nations Educational,...

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African cities of the future

African cities of the future

In May an international conference, the Forum for Sustainable Construction, was hosted by the American University in Cairo. The conference was sponsored by LafargeHolcim, one of the world’s biggest suppliers of cement. According to Graham Wood the conference was...

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Development upsets Jamestown

Talle inwoners van Jamestown  het verlede week hulle ontevredenheid met die voorgestelde ontwikkeling van 55 wooneenhede in die Blaauwklippen on Rivierbehuisingskompleks op 'n vergadering van inwoners en ander belanghebbendes uitgespreek.  Lees meer.

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A Boston suburb’s new law to protect bicycle lanes

A Boston suburb’s new law to protect bicycle lanes

The city council of Cambridge, the university suburb of Boston, passed a new law on the 8th of April that mandates the addition of bicycle lanes on all streets due for upgrades. Although this process will happen slowly, Cambridge is now the most progressive cycling...

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Academic African focus on an African city

Academic African focus on an African city

Professor António Tomás’ book, In the skin of the city: Luanda or the dialectics of Spatial transformation, will soon be published by Duke University Press. According to Professor Tomás, who recently had a talk at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies...

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Arata Isozaki receives highest reward in architecture

Arata Isozaki receives highest reward in architecture

The Japanese architect, Arata Isosaki, has received this profession’s highest international reward, the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Price. The fact that he grew up close to the bombed city, Hiroshima, facilitated the young Isozaki’s ideas on how to rebuild cities and...

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Books to read during autumn

Books to read during autumn

Three recently published books can inspire readers during the lengthening autumn evenings. Constance: One Road to Take – The Life and Photography of Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914-2000) by Peter Elliot, published independently Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the...

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Who lived in the Stellenbosch Winelands before 1652

Who lived in the Stellenbosch Winelands before 1652

This short essay describes what is currently known about the archaeology and history of the Stone Age people who lived in the vicinity of Stellenbosch and adjacent Winelands in the Western Cape before European colonisation. When and where did the human story begin?...

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Kelvin Campbell lecture in Stellenbosch

Kelvin Campbell lecture in Stellenbosch

Kelvin Campbell, an innovator and world leader in urban design, will be speaking in Stellenbosch about the challenges currently facing towns and cities all over the world, including South Africa, on 25 September. Campbell's lecture is important for anyone who wants to...

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