Award Entries
Pathways Through Time
Craig McClenaghan Architecture - South Africa
This small project, a new walkway inside the two-billion-year-old national heritage site, Wonderwerk Cave, is a balancing act between architecture and archaeology, transience and permanence. The gentle tectonic and apparent simplicity of this steel and timber installation, masks a rigorous tactical exploration of landscape intervention methodologies.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
306
Campanha Reviver
CEICA-Angola
The ‘Reviver’ campaign is a program to 'Protect the Cultural Heritage of Luanda City'. We created the 'Slave Route' from the architectural and urban memory of the historical city center. We prevent the extinction with surveys and building rehabilitation proposals as well as revitalization of public space.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2054
Positive Numbers, Denver Settlement
A Formal Terrain Research Collective-SA
The Positive Numbers project is not simply 'one thing': It involves enumeration processes in partnership with active NGOs, signage and way-finding for residents in the settlement and links to a larger short-to-long term upgrading strategy known as the Community Action Plan (CAP).
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People's Choice Total Votes:
21
From Landscape to Roofscape - Pavilions for Okana
Delft University of Technology - Kenya
From Landscape to Roofscape represents a design for a prototypical pavilion structure for public use in Kenya hosting a library, tailoring workshop and ICT rooms. Simplicity, low-tech solutions and an understandable design process were important to realize the project successfully together with the local workers and students within two years.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2547
The Light House
Graduate School of Architecture - University of Johannesburg - Cape Verde
The Light House is an architectural proposition that uses a palette of light and dark to suggest form, material, substance, and mood. Located on the southern peninsula of Santiago Island, Cape Verde. It investigates the relationship between performance and form, architect and user.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
46
Theatrical Tactics : Terminal 02
Graduate School of Architecture - University of Johannesburg - South Africa
How do we spatially begin to imagine a world continuously reinvented by technology and where humans can now inhabit multi-dimensional, digital realities simultaneously? Terminal 2 is a satirical narrative on the chaotic nature of social media representation in the city [Johannesburg] and introduces ‘time’ as medium for architectural practice.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
12
Wits Rural Facility
Kate Otten Architects - South Africa
Situated on the borders of a national nature reserve, this rural University campus is carefully inserted into an ecologically sensitive site, respecting and framing the context and providing an alternative teaching platform for training, research and community programmes.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
567
OVD525
Three14 Architects - South Africa
OVD525 is a private home located in Bantry Bay, Cape Town. The house was conceived as a series of horizontal slabs containing gardens, decks and pools which slide between two massy, shielding vertical elements at the flanking ends. The living spaces are formed in the voids between these slabs.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
10
BMW (SA) Head Office Refurbishment
Boogertman and Partners Architects - South Africa
THE DESIGN FOCUSES ON REGENERATING ICONIC HANS HALLEN STRUCTURE, MAINTAINING THE SPIRIT OF THE ORIGINAL BUILDING, WHILE INFUSING NEW LIFE. THE CONSEQUENCE IS AN ENGINEERED CO-EXISTANCE BETWEEN DYNAMICS, REINVENTION, IMPLEMENTING AN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE STANDARD, IMPROVING DIALOGUE WITHIN WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND EXTENDING THE BUILDGIN’S LIFE SPAN THROUGH PROGRESSIVE BUILDING PRINCIPLES.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1