by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 6, 2025 | Forum, News
Breyten Breytenbach se dood aan die einde van verlede jaar het gelei tot talryke huldeblyke in dagblaaie en op aanlyn-platforms. Suid-Afrikaners erf omvangryk van hierdie digter. Louise Viljoen verwoord die “enorme verlies vir die kulturele lewe van die Afrikaanse,...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 6, 2025 | Forum, News, Stellenbosch Info
Afrikaans: Onlangs is die verweerde hout van ‘n historiese veranda, ontwerp in 1905, herstel. Argitek Raymond Bouma, het hierdie proses namens die Universiteit Stellenbosch en Erfenis Wes-Kaap gemonitor. Raymond Bouma is ook ‘n komitee-lid van die Stellenbosch...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 6, 2025 | Forum, News
Afrikaans: Die Oxford Reference woordeboek omskryf erfenis as volg: Die nalatenskap van mense, kulture en omgewings. Vanuit ‘n wye perspektief sluit erfenis natuurlike en beboude landskappe, fisiese artifakte, kulturele uitbeeldings (bv. musiek, literatuur, visuele...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 6, 2025 | Forum, News
Afrikaans: Stellenbosch Erfenis Stigting (SES) het in reaksie op die publikasie van Stellenbosch Munisipaliteit se voorgestelde Soneringskema Verordening 2024 kommentaar gelewer, veral rondom straatskappe, dit wil sê die aansig en voorkoms van ‘n straat. SES stel voor...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 6, 2025 | Forum, News
Afrikaans: Motorvervaardiger Toyota het talle verras met Woven City, ‘n hoofsaaklik motorlose stad wat die maatskappy aan die basis van Berg Fuji bou. Later vanjaar trek die eerste 100 inwoners na Woven City. Die internasionaal erkende argitekfirma BIG het die huise...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 6, 2025 | Forum, News
Afrikaans: Meer as 1500 wêreldleiers het die heropening van Notre Dame in Parys aan die einde van 2024 bygewoon. Sedertdien het verskeie beriggewers verklaar dat dit ‘n bewarings-meesterstuk is. Die ikoniese katedraal met UNESCO Wêreld Erfenisstatus, het in...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 6, 2025 | Forum, News
Afrikaans: Elke jaar groei die aantal toekennings vir die mees leefbare stede in die wêreld. Die mees bekende toekenning word deur die Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) gedoen. Die EIU het vir die derde agtereenvolgende jaar Wene as die mees leefbaarste stad gelys,...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 6, 2025 | Forum, News, News and Awards
Afrikaans: In Januarie 2025 het New York heffings in die middestad geïmplementeer om verkeer en besoedeling te verminder. Terselfdetyd is die doelwit om die gebruik van publieke vervoer aan te moedig en ekstra fondse vir die onderhoud van publieke vervoer te genereer....
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Sep 16, 2024 | Architecture | Heritage, Forum, Meetings
On behalf of the Organising Committee we are delighted to invite you to participate in the Heritage Association of South Africa 23rd Annual Symposium which will be held from 22nd to 24th October 2024 at The Clarens Golf & Leisure Estate in association with Clarens...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 16, 2022 | Forum, News
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. The Corridor brings this vision closer for all our citizens. It will create...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 15, 2022 | Forum, News
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. This is the position it had in 2018 and...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 15, 2022 | Awards, Forum, News
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. Add New Kéré is a hero in...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 15, 2022 | Forum, News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 15, 2022 | Forum, News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 3, 2022 | Forum, News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 31, 2022 | Forum, Videos
These Are Jan Gehl’s Methods For Building Good Cities “We now know that first, we form the cities, but then the cities form us.” Meet 81-year-old Danish architect Jan Gehl who, for more than fifty years, has focused on improving the quality of urban life by helping...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 31, 2022 | Forum, Videos
Architect and academic Arthur Barker of the University of Pretoria believes there is a way of thinking about architecture in this country, that says something particular about South African architecture. To explore this notion, he identified FIVE THEMES which strongly...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 31, 2022 | Forum, Videos
Of the four finalists selected for Blank Space’s “Driverless Future Challenge”, which was announced last month, “Public Square” has emerged as the winning entry, with a plug-and-play scheme to transform New York’s public realm for its streets and pedestrians. Designed...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 31, 2022 | Forum, Videos
New York studio Edg has proposed converting some of Manhattan’s major roads into public-transit highways for driverless vehicles, in order to reduce travel times and turn the island’s central thoroughfares into landscaped parks. Edg’s project, named...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Dec 13, 2021 | Awards, Forum, News
Architecture Daily (a weblog covering architectural news, projects, products, events, interviews and competitions, opinion pieces, among others, catering to architects and designers) awarded their 2021 housing award to Nomos, a Spanish architectural firm, for their...
