by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Sep 27, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Sep 26, 2017 | News
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:
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Sep 26, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Sep 26, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Sep 25, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Sep 19, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Sep 14, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Sep 7, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 31, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 31, 2017 | News
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....
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 31, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 20, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 16, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 16, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 16, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 16, 2017 | News
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...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 15, 2017 | News
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,...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 15, 2017 | News
One of the first shortlists to be announced in the annual “awards season” for architecture, is the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) annual award given to the best house or extension completed by an architect in the United Kingdom in the last year....
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Aug 15, 2017 | News
Six projects will be competing for the 2017 Stirling Prize, the most coveted prize for architecture in the United Kingdom. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) gives this award to the building “that has made the biggest contribution to the evolution of...
by Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation | Jun 22, 2017 | News
Imagine a world without fame, famine or fear, a world without waste, wars and mass extinction. Hard to imagine, and yet our ancestors lived in that world. Is it too much to imagine that we could get back to such a world? If we do not, then our future could be in...
