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CONSTRUCTION WORLD
OCTOBER
2014
Special
commendations
1. Taxi Rank No. 2, Diepsloot,
Johannesburg: 26'10 South
Architects
2. House Gauché, Silver Lakes Golf
Estate, Pretoria: Earthworld
Architects
THE WINNING PROJECTS
Awards of Merit
1. Auditorium for the School of
Agriculture, Alice Campus, University
of Fort Hare, Eastern Cape: Ngonyama
Okpanum & Associates
2. Helenvale multi-purpose community
centre, Port Elizabeth: The Matrix
Urban Designers and Architects
3. Walmer Link Social Housing
Development, Port Elizabeth: Erik
Voight Architects
4. Weekend Hide, Rosendal, Free State:
Carmen Dickens Architect
5. UFS Department of Architecture, Free
State: Typology Architects
6. Studio home, Brixton, Johannesburg:
26'10 south Architects
7. ‘African Identity in Post-Apartheid
Public Architecture – White Skin,
Black Masks’: citation for research
dissertation by Professor Jonathan
Noble
8. House ‘Kleine Schuur’, Parktown,
Johannesburg: Office 24-7,
9. SEED Library, Alexandra, Gauteng:
Architects of Justice
10.Hopewell Visitors’ Centre near Port
Elizabeth: Richard Stretton T/A Koop
Design
11.New architecture wing, Tshwane
University of Technology, Pretoria:
Crafford & Crafford Argitekte
12.Ten on Lane, Polokwane: studioMAS
Architects & Urban Designers
13.Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg:
Cohen & Garson Architects
14.Dunkirk Beach Club House, KwaZulu-
Natal: Designworkshop: SA Architects
Awards of Excellence
1. UNISA Phase II, Cape Town: MSa
Michele Sandilands Architects
2. New additions to St Cyprian’s Girls
School, Cape Town: Noero Wolff
Architects
3. Babylonstoren between Klapmuts
and Simondium, Western Cape:
Malherbe Rust Architects
4. //HAPO Freedom Park Museum,
Tshwane: Office of Collaborative
Architects (GAPP Architects and
Urban Designers, Mashabane Rose +
Associates and MMA Architects)
5. Springfield Convent School pre-
school campus, Cape Town: CCNI
Architetcs
6. Dunkirk All Suites Hotel, KwaZulu-
Natal: Designworkshop: SA Architects
7. House Kleynhans, Marble Hall,
Pretoria: Thomas Gouws Architects &
Interiors
8. House Snyders, Blair Athol Estate,
Johannesburg: W Design Architecture
Studio
PROJECT PROFILE
by Ngonyama, founding director of Ngon-
yama Okpanum and Associates in East
London, the panel included Peter Kidger of
Corobrik in Durban, Malcolm Campbell ACG
Architects & Development Planners in Cape
Town, Prof Paul Kotze of Wits University and
Annemarie Meintjes, deputy editor of VISI
magazine in Johannesburg.
“The decision to visit the short-
listed projects gave the adjudicators the
opportunity to engage seriously as individ-
uals with different outlooks on architectural
trajectory and background, and also with
the projects and their authors,” Ngonyama
said. “This was an enriching element of the
process this year.”
Ngonyama acknowledged the valued
support of Corobrik, South Africa’s leading
brick manufacturers, who have sponsored
the prestigious awards programme since
its inception.
Peter Kidger of Corobrik said, “We are
delighted, as a patron of architecture and
sponsor of the awards programme to honour
these fine examples of great, recent archi-
tecture in this country.”
“South Africa presents architects with
exciting challenges by virtue of its varying
typography and climate, often limited
budgets and an evolving multicultural
society where public architecture is required
to be engaging, transformative and inclu-
sive,” he said.
“Architects are also faced with the signif-
icant design and specification considera-
tions surrounding climate change, ensuring
that we use non-renewable resources more
effectively and tread with greater circum-
spection on our planet.
“Each of the winning projects has
successfully addressed these challenges,”
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