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Rehabilitation of Buildings

Volume: 8, Edition: 3, 1983

Articles: 

  • Editorial

    Author(s) Dr. Walter Peters

    Keywords: urban design, arcades, refurbished, worthy buildings, conservation, demolitions, preservation, redevelopment, redundant buildings, character, its spirit, retention, best features, contemporary, economical, re-building, challenge, original architect, existing space, maximum efficiency, modern needs, services, elaborate facade, eclecticism, detailed delight, Victorians, old, unique history, distinct identity in time and space, continuity, Incentives for Rehabilitation, US Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, replace, revitalise economic prospects, tax Credit, Amortization, Accelerated Depreciation, AIA Journal, income, National Register for Historic Places, Greenacres, past, national

  • News

    Architect(s): Revel Fox

    Keywords: NPIA - Durban Arts '83 Exhibition, Natal architects, Durban Art Gallery, City Hall, catalogue, services, Institute, serves the community, Natal practices, promotional opportunity, Best brick built building competition, Corobrik

  • University/Institute Liaison Committee

  • Letters

    Author(s) Lance Smith, Helmut Jahn

    Keywords: public relations, educating the lay public, crit, jury, Daily News, New York Times, Paul Goldberger, promote, testing buildings, architectural criticism, Cape Times, Reyner Banham, Ada Louise Huxtable, Pevsner, perceptive, post-modernism, United States and Europe

  • Changes

    Keywords: partnerships, Members, Addresses, class, membership

  • Provincial Theatres Complex - Natal Playhouse

    Page 1

    Architect(s): Small, Pettit & Robson, Gordon Small, Cown, Powers and Ellis

    Location(s) Smith Street

    Keywords: African Theatres Ltd., P. Rogers Cook, Princes, broadcasting studio, Johannesburg Colosseum, below water table, cool and dehumidified air, all-Elizabethan, star-lit sky, Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush, 17th Century French style, BBC, London, merit, economic advantages, rehabilitating, Natal Provincial Administration, original fabric, Spirit, opera, drama, Playhouse Proscenium Area, new stage, fly tower, Grand Foyer, porte-cochere, rehearsal, foci, illusionistic ceiling of stars, reinstated, roof trusses, machinery, below mean sea level, diaphragm walls, Bentonite, tension piles, phased opening

  • Greenacres

    Page 4

    Architect(s): Selsick Kinnear Mitchell, Ben Hoffenberg, Willy Malfeyt

    Keywords: Harvey Greenacre and Co., City of Durban, T. Morgan Harvey, Benjamin W. Greenacre, drapery store, W.E. Robarts, modern renascence style, fire prevention sprinkler system, ventilation, sanitary, passenger and goods lifts, curving, Preservation Battle, chain-store, lease-back, Architectural Challenge, West Street elevation, clock tower, matching-up, structural grid, space frame, bronze tinted safety glass, cast iron columns, historical facade, 'no vibration' piles, steel shores, post-tensioned

  • Old Durban Station

    Page 6

    Architect(s): Hallen, Theron & Partners, Interarc

    Location(s) Commercial Road

    Keywords: preservation, vacate, ownership passed, road improvements, extension, retain, best parts, two rapid stages, administrative offices, Natal Government Railways, S.A.R., alternating layers of brick and stucco, Victorian, angled intersection, historical, sound structure, urban design issues, turret, scale, finish, echoes the shape and form, existing platform building, traffic island, CBD, historic centre, lantern roofs, Gateway Plaza, shopping malls

  • Comment

    Page 8

    Architect(s): Small, Pettit & Robson, Gordon Small

    Author(s) Jack Barnett

    Location(s) Cape Town

    Keywords: Railway Station controversy, radio debate, Old Playhouse, African Theatres, NAPAC, theatre and opera house, workable backstage facilities, foyer, London west-end tradition, rear seats 38 metres from the stage apron, Greenacres, retention, bland solution, renovation, welding, quality, Locomotive Plaza, subway, opposed to demolition, new economic determinants, economical to recycle, preventing, depersonalisation of the urban environment, preserving links, present and past, architectural altruism, ideals, adapt human needs, economic, social, physical, ISAA Gold Medal of Honour Recipient