Nominations & Awards

Beer Hall at Umlazi Glebe

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Architect(s): Franklin, Garland & Gibson

Location(s) Port Natal Bantu Administration Board, South Africa, Rhodesia

Keywords: traditional African draught beer, hostels, visits to existing beerhalls, African males, congenial atmosphere, drink beer, socialize, reducing the scale, hall, smaller rooms, grouped informally, central courtyard, sorghum beer, power floated concrete, epoxy additive, facebrick, over shutter concrete, plastered friezes

Faculty of Arts Building

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Architect(s): Small, Pettit & Baillon

Location(s) University of Natal Pietermaritzburg

Keywords: Golf Courses, master plan, major pedestrian route linking the buildings, staff common room, Speech and Drama, boardwalk, students common room, meeting space, lecture theatres, Experimental Theatre

Huletts Head Office

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Architect(s): Hallen, Theron & Partners

Location(s) Umhlanga Rocks

Keywords: Board Room, canteen, computer suite, caretaker's flat, future extension, parking, bus parking, commercial centre, cane fields, open office plan, modification of office landscape plan, modules, delivery, PABX system, cafeteria, park-like setting, proposed regional commercial centre, decentralised office, standard for future development, decoration, visual screening

Julia Road Shops & Offices

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Architect(s): Building Design Group

Location(s) Julia Road, Arcadia Road, Berea Ridge

Keywords: special commercial, professional offices, concrete structure, loadbearing brickwork, partition walls, steel portals

Research & Development Laboratory

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Architect(s): Building Design Group

Location(s) Mount Edgecombe

Keywords: Sugar Mill, Group Administration buildings, head office, replacement, older buildings, spine, ducted conditioned air, return air plenum

Natalia

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Architect(s): Barend R.H. Knuppe

Location(s) Pietermaritzburg

Keywords: high bulk factor, tower blocks, podium, City Square, computer centre, Municipal offices, headquarters, Churchill Square, Administration Avenue, modular planning, cellular office, open planning

Cabana Beach

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Architect(s): Campbell, Bernstein & Irving

Location(s) Umhlanga Rocks

Keywords: resort, hotels, CBD environment, family groups, leisure atmosphere, holiday accommodation, tour groups, Mediterranean image, relaxation, multi-tiered complex, fully-serviced suites, amenity shops, licensed restaurants, supervised child-care, games room, discotheque, sporting facilities, floodlit tennis, squash courts, swimming pool, shear wall construction, saw-tooth plan of the wings, mezzanine access galleries, scale

House Harris

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Architect(s): Ferreira Da Silva & Smith

Location(s) Springfield Road, Durban

Keywords: entertaining, reinforced concrete

Skye

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Architect(s): Ferreira Da Silva & Smith

Location(s) Ridge Road, Durban

Keywords: penthouses, cars, accommodation, living-in servants

House Finkel

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Architect(s): Ferreira Da Silva & Smith

Location(s) Musgrave Road, Durban

Keywords: tight urban site, setback, height restrictions

Dolphinarium

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Architect(s): Chiazzari & Franklin

Location(s) West Street, Durban

Keywords: aquatic mammals, Aquarium, town planning regulations, height restriction, Precast Concrete Panels, algae

Regional Headquarters for S.A.B.S.

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Architect(s): Franklin, Garland & Gibson

Location(s) Waterval Park, Durban

Keywords: laboratory, strictly utilitarian, elegant, Western Freeway, human scale, podium, mushroom arched heads, service requirements, white marble, insitu terrazzo, marmoran, plinth

Shell House

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Architect(s): Geoffrey Le Sueur, Stauch, Vorster & Partners

Location(s) Durban

Keywords: Metro Cinema, Western Bank, Shell Oil Company in Durban, banking hall, transparent glass box, passenger terminal, South African Airways, landscape office planning, column free, sun protecting fascias, white ceramic tile

House Kara

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Architect(s): Hallen, Theron & Partners

Location(s) Westville

Keywords: businessman, Indian community, entertaining, interior court, family room

St. John's Nursery School

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Architect(s): Hallen, Theron & Partners

Location(s) Pinetown

Keywords: pre-primary centre, gathering area, chapel, church, face brick, prolith, asphalt roof, steel purlins, fibreglass roof lights

St. John's Diocesan School for Girls

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Architect(s): Hallen, Theron & Partners

Location(s) Pitermaritzburg

Keywords: Resource Centre, auditorium, entrance court, semi-circular form, re-inforced concrete, IBR sheeting, terracotta roof tiles, brush concrete paving

Golden Hours Centre

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Architect(s): Hallen, Theron & Partners

Location(s) Sherwood

Keywords: mentally retarded adults, matron's flat, supervisor's cottage, recreational environment, communal facilities, canalit roofing, prolith ceilings

S.A.R. & H.

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Architect(s): Hallen, Theron & Partners

Location(s) Durban

Keywords: Durban Station, laundry area

General Building

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Architect(s): Mallows, Louw, Hoffe & Hamlin

Location(s) Smith and Field Street, Durban

Keywords: zoned, bulk limitation of 8, commercial building, maximum permissible bulk, facilities, all race groups, C.B.D., street architecture, solar screen, maintenance-free external facade, double-glazed

Huntley's Hill Substation

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Architect(s): Maurice Dibb

Location(s) Westville

Keywords: Durban Corporation, KVA sub-station, security, maintenance free finishes, rooflights, decorative aggregate off-shutter concrete

Ladysmith Library

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Architect(s): Moolman, Van Der Walt, Vlok, Van Der Westhuizen & Segal

Location(s) Murchison & Alexander Streets, Ladysmith

Keywords: CBD, Natal Provincial Library Service, multi-purpose functions, control desk, geometric pattern, civic character

News Round-Up

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Keywords: New Natal Provincial Institute of Architects Committee and Sub-Committee, Executive Committee, National Board Representatives, Re-Appointment of Representatives, Composition of Benevolent and N.P.I.A. Foundation Fund Trustees, Pietermaritzburg Exhibition, Tatham Art Gallery, Old St. Saviours Cathedral, Commercial Road, city's built environment, Gordan Small, Vice-President