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,...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jul 25, 2019 | Forum, News
The company, Sidewalk Labs, recently submitted its updated, innovative and futuristic masterplan to transform two neighbourhoods in Toronto’s waterfront. If the masterplan is accepted, the implementation of the plan in these neighbourhoods will be the pilot of...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jul 25, 2019 | Forum, News
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,...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jul 25, 2019 | Forum, News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jul 16, 2019 | Forum, News
Lees hier oor Stellenbosch se paaie.
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jul 16, 2019 | Forum, News
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.
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jul 16, 2019 | Forum, News
Meer as 4000 mense het al ‘n petisie, Save the Square, geteken…lees meer.
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jul 16, 2019 | Forum, News
Inwoners van Brandwacht en Paradyskloof is bekommerd oor die moontlike bou van ‘n groot deurpad deur die woonbuurte teen die hange van Stellenboschberg. Lees verder.
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Apr 29, 2019 | Forum, News
The recent fire that consumed the roof and elements of the Notre-Dame cathedral reached the headlines of most international news sites. Although the nature of the damage to the interior of the cathedral is still uncertain, the building was not completely destroyed by...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Apr 29, 2019 | Forum, News
The previous newsletter referred to Stellenbosch Municipality’s draft Spatial Development Framework, which is open for public comment until May. The preamble to this framework explains that growth and development of settlements is inevitable and that certain...
