2017 SAIA-KZN Awards for Architecture

UKZN Graduation

Keywords: News, UKZN College of Humanities, Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree, Masters of Architecture, degree Doctor of Philosophy on staffer Yashaen Luckan, Hindu religious Architecture, architectural pedagogy, learning space development, architectural education at universities of technology

Exhibition: The architecture of Trish Emmett

Location(s) 12 Browns Road, Bond Shed, the Point

Keywords: News, Emmett : Emmett Architects, Women in Architecture, Woman's month, Corobrik

In Memoriam

Author(s) Prof. Walter Peters

Keywords: News, Building services division, University of Natal, M.Arch degree by research, The adaptive re-use of university buildings, Pietermaritzburg campus

Spaces worth living in go beyond the function.

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Author(s) Prof. Walter Peters

Keywords: biennial Awards, SAIA, KZN Awards for Architecture, SAIA Awards of Merit, SAIA Awards of Excellence, criteria for assessment, Vitruvian triad of commodity, firmness and delight, academic architect, KZN Architects, Alethea, co-convenors, construction period, furnished, in use, accessible, spaces worth living in, go beyond function, workmanship, security, entry formalities, clipboards and cameras, posters, Special Mentions, stamp of appreciation, room for controversy, citations

Bluecrane

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Architect(s): Koop Design

Location(s) Curry’s Post

Keywords: midlands, built over the edge of dam, repurposing of reclaimed and salvaged timber, Yellowwood, Oregon pine, furniture, stair, craftsmanship, rough-hewn stone, dry stack-walling, coursed rubble masonry, solar array, water storage, insulated tanks, underfloor reticulation system, solar gain, solar blinds, local gas heaters, passive energy use, hard landscaping, up-cycle materials, uniqueness of the home in its setting, ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, Roger Jardine

Container Traders’ Shelters

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Architect(s): Architecture Department, eThekwini Municipality

Location(s) 2 Kelly Road, Hammarsdale

Keywords: unremarkable streetscape, Infrastructure, sub-standard facilities, manipulation of ground plane on a steep slope, sheltered public spaces, shading, insulation, ventilation, water harvesting, planters, water tanks, vegetables, piling, steel structure, robustness, increased lifespan, demonstrates a commitment from the municipality, commodity, firmness, delight, activity of traders, socialising, artificial canopy of trees, invites interaction, joy

K-RITH tower building

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Architect(s): FGG Architects

Location(s) 719 Umbilo Road, Durban

Keywords: KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, K-RITH, UKZN Nelson R Mandela medical campus, landmark, anchor for unifying the existing facilities and buildings, four-storey-high-atrium, inverted roof, Howard, Hughes, flat-floor multi-purpose spaces, breakaway court, laboratories, sun control, elements, parking, basement, highly serviced building, tightly constrained site, ceramics, Jane du Rand, plants, Siniktemba clinic, McCords Hospital, HIV

Pixley House

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Architect(s): designworkshop : sa

Location(s) 396-402 Dr Pixley KaSeme Street, Durban

Keywords: pioneer, inner city office buildings, adapted to residential use, very limited budget, target market, bespoke design, solutions, fittings and finishes, spatial configurations, mix of tenancies, open circultaion areas, Payne Bros department store, skyscrape office tower, crown, series of setbacks, Art Deco characteristics, closely-spaced continuous vertical piers, embellishments accented from corner butresses, repurposing downtown office space to residential use, sustaining and enhancing Art Deco heritage value, inspiration for the regeneration of similar buildings, Dennis Gilbert, 2-building unit, 1-unit bedroom

RCL Foods Offices

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Architect(s): Elphick Proome Architects (EPA)

Location(s) 10 The Boulevard, Westway Office Park, Westville

Keywords: generic office building, awkwardly orientated, steep site, bespoke design, amalgamation of five corporate acquisitions, workplace environment, branding alchemist, public interface, external faces, central linear atrium, podium, Nature Reserve, Indian Ocean, designed to endure, funky-raw, off-shutter, fair-face, sawn finishes, boreholes, recycled water, photo-voltaic panel, energy wheel recovery, reduce overall energy consumption, shoe-horning, spacious, durable, resonant with meaning, lifting the user's spirit, angled fins, horizontal baffles, orthogonal exterior, meeting pods, linear atrium, Maxine Elphick, Karl Beath

Pre-cast yard and building services centre

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Architect(s): Architecture Department, eThekwini Municipality, Michael Watts Architects

Location(s) Springfield

Keywords: pre-cast facility, Building services division, covered central spine, communal activities, energy and water saving devices, hardy, workmanship and construction, commendable, Jon Ivins

RBIDZ Entrance gate

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Architect(s): Jeremy Steere Architect

Location(s) Midway Road, Richards Bay

Keywords: Richards Bay Industrial Zone, Gateway, environmentally sensitive, architecturally daring, fluid concrete structure, fish eagle emblem, uMhlathuze municipality, counterform, rigid, orthogonal geometry, raised off ground, planted courtyard, thermal chimney, passive cooling, Rainwater collected, harvested, underground tanks, grey water, flushing toilets, symbol, brave, Mlungisi Mathe

House Hoal

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Architect(s): Dean Jay Architects

Location(s) 15 Python Place, Hawaan Forest Estate

Keywords: residential estate, Nature Reserve, living area opening seamlessly to the terrace, favourable north orientation, timber shutters, ventilation, symphysis of client, design code and context, human habitation, technical finesse, Richard Holgate

Ad Coelum

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Architect(s): Architecture Fabrik

Location(s) Durban North

Keywords: adapt the family home, clerestory-lit open plan living area, Pavilion, accessible by wheelchair, storage of storm-water for irrigation, refurbishment, lifting building to the sky, Ad Coelum, appropriate description, intervention, Angela Buckland

One juror’s KZN design experience

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Author(s) Keyan G Tomaselli

Keywords: non-architect, commodity, firmness, delight, social context, security, omni-present, Vitruvian criteria, garden and home, extreme wealth, public purse, exquisite design and construction, rigidity of brutal concrete, container construction, engineering solutions, wow factor, unlimited budgets, value-for-money cost-effectiveness, client briefs, architect advice, trade-off, structural engineering feats, waste services facility, UKZN Unite building, township students, sculptural outsides, mosaicsof viruses, atrium, interactivity, one-dimensional, just work space, humanized cosmoses enabling the circulation of people and ideas, container-based kiosks, new design language

UKZN student declared Corobrik Architectural Student of 2016 title

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Keywords: Jean-Piere Desvaux de Marigny, Architectural Student of the Year 2016, innate understanding of social and cultural imperatives, national title, Dirk Meyer, judges, Earthworld Architects & Interiors, Odyssey Architects SA, Lemon Pebble Architects, University of KwaZulu-Natal, topic, dissertation, Design for [bio] diversity, potential of architecture for ecological conservation, environmental awareness, water research facility in Springfield, uMgeni River, Bridget Horner, Cathy Sutherland, Development Studies Dicipline, School of the Built Environment, competition, Elena Pascola