by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 19, 2020 | Essays & Opinions, Forum, I: Lectures, Articles and Essays, News
Marilyn Martin, an honorary research associate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art gives her informed opinion on the French government’s plans to restore the spire or flèche of the Notre Dame. Her insight also scaffolds the way in which we can think about heritage in...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 18, 2020 | News
We live in an extraordinary time and must focus on our environment and fellow human beings. But even in extraordinary times, ordinary life goes on. You can read the small news items that follow within the context of these new and continuously changing circumstances....
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 16, 2020 | News
Paul Roos Gymnasium received a blue plaque when they recently celebrated the school’s 154th birthday. A blue plaque reminds the passer-by that something noteworthy and historically significant happened at that specific spot. In the case of Paul Roos the blue plaque...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 16, 2020 | News
Elaine Aucamp, a well-known, colourful figure in Stellenbosch, passed away in January this year. She was actively involved and committed to the preservation of Stellenbosch’s cultural heritage. As a founding member of the Stellenbosch Interest Group, she also...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 16, 2020 | News
Stellenbosch lost her oldest two oak trees in the storm that hit the town on the 18th of January 2020. One oak was uprooted and blown over, while the Emergency Team of the Municipality cut off the top halve of the other oak, which stood further down Ryneveld street....
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 16, 2020 | News
With 99,1% Vienna is, according to the annual index of the Economist, the world’s most liveable city for 2019 – the second year running. Vienna is known for it’s lavish architecture, art and coffee shops. However, the index also takes factors such as stability...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 16, 2020 | News
Three female architects from Johannesburg were honoured when their firm, Counterspace, was invited by the Serpentine Gallery in London to design the 2020 Serpentine pavilion. The three women, Sumayya Vally, Sarah de Villiers and Amina Kaskar, are the first South...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 16, 2020 | News
Two female Irish architects, Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara, received the 2020 Pritzker Prize, which is Architecture’s highest international honour. Farrell and McNamara are the only members of Grafton Architects in Dublin. Both women also have a keen interest in...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 16, 2020 | News
The Heritage Association of South Africa (HASA) recently updated their website on which they explain that the Heritage Association of South Africa is the voice of conservation bodies from around the country that are dedicated to conserving the national estate. The...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 16, 2020 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Mar 16, 2020 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Dec 2, 2019 | News
Stellenbosch is a town and not a city, but it is worthwhile to take note of the wealth of newly published research and incentives that focus on improving urban areas. (A definition for the word city is somewhat elusive and, as Sudjic Deyan explains in his fascinating...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Nov 25, 2019 | News
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)...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Nov 25, 2019 | News
Two research publications traced the ancient patterns of cultural heritage and the location of ancestral homelands to Southern Africa and in doing so, focused international attention on Southern Africa. A team of researchers from the African Centre for Coastal...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Nov 25, 2019 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Oct 21, 2019 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Oct 21, 2019 | News
The Stellenbosch Municipality’s Heritage Survey and Conservation Management Plan have just won the Presidential Award of the Institute of Landscape Architecture (ILASA). In response to this honour, the mayor, Advocate Gesie van Deventer, has said that it is...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 13, 2019 | Forum, News
“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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jul 25, 2019 | Forum, News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jul 25, 2019 | Forum, News
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,...
