Located in the Central part of Port Elizabeth (South Africa), the site along Govan Mbeki Street in between Chapel Street lies the Edgars building currently. Design brief stated that we hypothetically remove that to replace with a mixed use building known as a Bioclimatic Groundsraper housing Coffee shops, retail, offices and residential at the top most level. This is still a very rough 3D rendering as a basis to start, much work is taking place currently to produce an up to standard 3d walkthrough.
Stan Field, of Field Architecture describes the design of The Ubuntu Centre, Zwide Township, South Africa. Learn more at http://www.fieldarchitecture.com
Hotel Room Oversupply and Average Room Rates in South Africa - The Grant Thornton article entitled South African hotels not overpriced refers. In it, Martin Jansen van Vuuren, Director, suggests that hotels are not overpriced in South Africa. The writer provides a comparative analysis as evidence which puts the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosebank against a similar hotel located in some of the most prestigious cities [...] [Makhudu's Blog]
Property Investment 101 – The Property Syndication Lesson - The recent reports and comments involving a very prominent property syndication company provide a case in point. Due to the inability of this company to make a mandatory distribution to its investors recently, various commentators have not lost the opportunity to criticise the property syndication investment model as being bad for investors. The main critics [...] [Makhudu's Blog]
Nigeria: FG Raises Panel on Planned Six New Varsities - Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagyi on Thursday inaugurated a committee to fine tune modalities for establishment of the six universities approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at its Wednesday meeting. [AA Construction]
Edible Edifice - Unity Temple asked architects, engineers and designers to defy convention -- just like Frank Lloyd Wright -- and reinterpret the classic traditional gingerbread house through 21st century eyes. Our panel of judges will rate these candy-coated masterpieces based on originality, craftsmanship, and je ...05.11.2010 [WAC Latest News]
global design competition - The Global Design Competition is open to individuals and organizations world-wide and aims to collect a broad variety of design solutions for low carbon restaurants by any means possible, including but not limited
to reduction in the need for electricity, food product choices, localized powe ...27.10.2010 [WAC Latest News]
Competition - City Museum Medellin 2010 - ARQUITECTUM invites you to participate on its new landscape architecture competiton Medellin 2010. The city of MEdellin is Colombias second most important city, as well as the city with the greatest impact and dynamism of the country. Sadly in the past, Colombia and the city, suffered waves of viole ...26.10.2010 [WAC Latest News]
The Voussoirs Award - In order for an arch to stand on its own, each voussoir, or element of an arch, must hold its equal share of the load, working directly with the other components in complete unison. Similarly, each collaborator within a design project must work in close association with the rest of the team in ...04.11.2010 [WAC Latest News]
Thresholds 40 - Call for Submissions - Thresholds 40 invites projects, ideas, and beliefs in a variety of media, including scholarly papers, visual work, and philosophical treatises, that explore the dangerous and messy theme of the socially conscious project. ...05.11.2010 [WAC Latest News]
Winners of HB:BX Competition Announced - The Emerging New York Architects Committee, AIA NY Chapter, is proud to announce the winners of its fourth biennial international ideas competition, High Bridge: Bronx, Building Cultural Infrastructure (HB:BX). Three hundred eight six (386) teams and individuals registered for the competition and ov ...05.11.2010 [WAC Latest News]
The Spire Tec Competition - Announcing an architectural design competition for a 62,750 square metres mixed use area that is part of an IT office complex spread across 85,000 square metres of land; with a built potential of 1,75,000 square metres. The complex is in Greater Noida; part of the Delhi - National Capital Region (NC ...08.11.2010 [WAC Latest News]
NESEA Student Design Competition - Competitors will be challenged with the design of a small residential community on a 4 acre vacant lot located in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Teams will submit a complete design package that will include a site plan, community center, and housing units for 20 families. They will be asked to c ...10.11.2010 [WAC Latest News]
Call for Collaborative Design: HAITI - HABITAT - Since the devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, a huge outpouring of humanitarian aid has been directed towards the country. However, the transition from relief to reconstruction has been slow. In an effort to support this rebuilding effort, Haiti Habitat announces this Call ...11.11.2010 [WAC Latest News]
Apply Now To Be SUPERFRONT Architect-In-Residence 2011 - SUPERFRONT’s Architect-in-Residence program supports emerging artists and architects from under-represented social demographics, especially LGBT women, and/or Black, Latino, and/or Pacific Islander architects of any gender, in their development as artists or architects working with urban space. Cand ...11.11.2010 [WAC Latest News]
Nigeria: Federal Housing Authority to Build 100, 000 Housing Units - The Managing Director of the Fedaral Housing Authority, Arch. Terver Gemade has unveiled plans by his organisation to provide 100, 000 affordable housing units within four years to assist in closing the 16 million housing gap, in the country. [AA Urbanisation]
Nigeria: FG to refurbish Independence Building in Lagos - President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has said the Federal Government will give a face-lift to the abandoned Independence Building in Lagos in order to make it a befitting historical edifice and national pride. [AA Urbanisation]
Uganda: Shoddy Work Killed City Workers - UNPROFESSIONAL excavation methods led to the collapse of the retainer wall at the construction site at Namasuba, a city suburb, in which three people were killed, the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers has said. [AA Construction]
Uganda: Owner of Collapsed Building Defies Police - The police say the owner of the building whose retainer wall collapsed on Tuesday killing three people has defied police summons to appear at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (CID) and record a statement. [AA Construction]
The brief entailed the creation of a boutique hotel with the comforts of home, and where all the functional requirements of the most demanding business professionals are addressed during their stay; space efficient design is key in order to maximize the use of a relatively small site.
Tunisia: Country Aims at Promoting 'Smart City' Concept - Organized by the Tunisian Internet and Multimedia Association (ATIM), in cooperation with the French Communication and Information Association for Sustainable Development (ACIDD), Hammamet will host on November 10, 2010 an international workshop on the theme "Green and connected cities". [AA Urbanisation]
Sierra Leone: Local Construction Workers Complain - Some disgruntled workers of the Sierra Construction Systems (SCS) limited have registered their dissatisfaction over the way and manner they were being treated by the management of the company. [AA Construction]
