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Extreme weather is not the reason behind disasters such as the catastrophic flooding following Hurricane Harvey that hit Houston in August 2017. The blame should rather go to poor urban planning. This is the opinion of disaster expert Ilan Kelman on Dezeen. According...
Two South American architects were awarded Architect of the Year Award and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture in this year’s Women in Architecture Awards. The Capetonian Ilze Wolff of Wolff Architects was also on the shortlist for the Moira Gemmill...
South Africa is not the only country where monuments commemorating the past have led to public debates on the interpretation of history and the act of remembering. In an article in the New York Times, journalist Sabrina Tavernise tells of a visit to a Russian summer...
The French town of Saint-Malo is for many a typical European town rich with history and charm, with cobblestone streets, a fortress and medieval layout. During its tourist season the town’s average density is more than double that of cities like Tokyo and Vancouver,...
The Pritzker Prize for 2018 was, for the first time, awarded to an Indian architect, Balkrishna Doshi. According to the jury, Doshi has "an understanding and appreciation of the deep traditions of India’s architecture”. ArchDaily also reported the jury lauded the...
ArchDaily created a list of interesting facts on Doshi: * Doshi’s office, Vastu Shilpa, created a list of “must-see” architecture sites in the city of Ahmedabad so that visitors to the office can see the city and understand the context in which Doshi creates his...
'n Plaasdorpshuis - Our brief was simple - create a home where you are constantly aware of the beautiful mountains surrounding us, the reason we gave up city life. Click here to read the full article.
People voted with their feet when the Municipality made a portion of Andringa Street more accessible to pedestrians during Transport Week. Pedestrian traffic was consistently good and, especially in the late afternoon and early evening, developed into an...
Wolfred Damen and other ex-residents of Die Vlakte will share their recollections at a public tour of Die Vlakte on Saturday 18 November 2017 from 10:00 to 13:00. The tour is hosted by the Stellenbosch University Gallery. In April 2017, the previous tour, coincided...
The presence of Nieuwe Molen, the third wheat mill built in Stellenbosch, is being re-established at Meulplein near the Braak, thanks to a project undertaken by the Stellenbosch Arts Association and the municipality. Strijdom van der Merwe handled the design. Because...
Bicycle stands as outdoor sculpture is the theme of Stand, the latest exhibition of the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust. Works by Strijdom van der Merwe, Gerhard van Eck, Guy du Toit, Marne Viljoen and Jacques Buys is already on display. More artists will be...
The City of Cape Town's latest Integrated Public Transport Network (IPTN) has recently been approved by the council and the plan is to involve minibus taxis in a prominent manner. The taxis will not only form part of the fleet of vehicles by which commuters...
Jan Gehl, doyen of city designers, has five rules for designing good, large cities. See and read more.
The French capital believes it has a head start over more modern cities with private vehicles becoming fewer. A city like Paris, which was founded before the arrival of cars, was never developed with cars in mind. It will therefore be easier for such a city to adapt...
The architect of Cape Town's new Zeitz MOOCA art museum tells how his fear that people would not come to the museum had guided the design. Also read the Visio report:
Jeff Speck, who writes about pedestrians in cities, believes that an outing on foot should be useful, safe, comfortable and interesting. An article in the Guardian, also tells of initiatives and projects undertaken in different world cities – from New York to Gangzhou...
Architect and urban designer Henri Comrie has supplied these photographs of a pedestrian crossing on a fairly busy road in the French province of Provence. The crossing made of coarse stone seems to be a very successful means of calming down traffic. It connects a...
The Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation receives various inquiries about buildings and landscapes in the town and district every week. We provide one example of a query and an answer, in the hope that readers of the newsletter may want to become collaborators on a...
Members of the Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation may be interested in this beautifully illustrated new book on the archaeology of burial grounds in Green Point. It includes a historical background to the area flanking Somerset Road and describes some of the major...
Papal Bulls gave Christians the 'right' to take over the lands of non-believers. This forged identities that created 'othering' and led to brutal exploitation of aborigines and hybrid populations who could not be baptised, and so were ostracised from the power...
Name: The Table House Client: Undisclosed Location: Philippi, Cape Town Status: Ongoing First prototype: build by Hands of Honour Informal shack dwellers in Cape Town exist in a state of helpless temporariness – helplessness as they don’t possess...
Proposed changes to the R44 between Stellenbosch and Somerset West were discussed on 15 August at a public meeting arranged by Mr Donald Grant, Western Cape Minister of Public Works and Transport, and Advocate Gesie van Deventer, Mayor of Stellenbosch. People at the...
The International Criminal Court will today order reparations to be paid by Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, an Islamist from Mali who was jailed last year after pleading guilty to destroying shrines and damaging a mosque in Timbuktu, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1988....
The theft of copper plaques on historical buildings is still a problem, not only in Stellenbosch but also elsewhere in South Africa. Copper plaques are expensive and can quickly become the target of thieves. Blue ceramic plaques seem to be the solution but is...
While driverless cars are still mostly limited to paper in South Africa, cities in Europe and North America are actively starting to plan for the advent of this new chapter in transportation. BlankSpace recently hosted The Driverless Future Challenge, asking for...
A group of fifty architects and designers have been appointed by the Mayor of London as “Design Advocates”. The purpose is to support design and building in the British capital and to ensure that it is “high-quality, inclusive, and sustainable”, reports ArchDaily. It...
Despite the many lessons one can learn from the Danish capital Copenhagen in terms of city design, there is one important problem that is often overlooked: the size of Copenhagen (600 000 inhabitants) versus cities like New York or Chicago. This is the conclusion of...
Ten buildings erected in the United Kingdom in the recent past, are celebrated on a special series of stamps made available by Royal Mail recently. According to Royal Mail the buildings “represent the renaissance of contemporary architecture in the UK of recent...
The American chapter of Docomomo, Docomomo US, has recently announced the 2017 winners of the Modernism in America Awards. Nine projects were highlighted for the restoration of postwar architecture and landscapes in the United States. Now in its fourth year, the...
ArchDaily have asked students to make submissions for the third Student Design-build Projects. The response was very good and the editorial team have selected 34 projects that they feel deserve wider recognition. Projects from as wide as the USA, UK, Spain, Chile,...
