2021 SAIA-KZN Awards for Architecture

Articles:

Editor’s Notes

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Author(s) Walter Peters

Keywords: biennial SAIA-KZN Awards programme, celebrating achievements, national Corobrik Students of 2019 and 2020, tactical urbanism, obituaries, travel.

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SAIA-KZN News

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Keywords: Afrisam-SAIA 2019-20 Sustainable Design Award, Thanda Early Childhood Development Centre, Architects of Justice, Richard Dobson Architects, Asiye eTafuleni, Pop-up micro childrens’ facility, Bio-efficient cookstove, Cassim Abdool Hack Kadwa, Shirish Sukhlal, Po-Chi (Andy) Chen.

2021 SAIA-KZN Awards for Architecture: Virtual Inspection, Virtual Adjudication

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Author(s) Walter Peters

Keywords: buildings erected during 2019 – 2020, Ms Sonja Petrus Spamer, Ms Thilo Sidambaram, Antonio Blanco, Ms Trish Emmett, Jeremy Steere, Mongezi Ncube, virtual, ‘load-shedding’, reconvene, single SAIA-KZN Award for Architecture, single SAIA-KZN Special Mention, Commendation.

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Creating places: Student Work at UKZN Architecture Learning Site

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Keywords: Third Year students, Architectural Design & Technology 3A, ‘parasitic pod’, Mr Juan Solis-Arias, Sanele Tshonga, Shaquel Tontpal, Kirika Naidoo.

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2021 SAIA-KZN Award for Architecture: Dukkah Restaurant & Bar

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Architect(s): Koop Design

Location(s) 59 Florida Road, cnr Fifth Avenue, Windermere, Durban

Keywords: house, repurposed as a restaurant, activate the potential of the southern portion of Florida Rd, architectural heritage, Greyville Village, customer experience, primary drivers, concept, urban management, ‘theatre of dining’, ‘future proof’, Richard Stretton, double volume, cubical space, Solar Control, retractable roof, economical build, challenge town planning codes, catalytic project.

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2021 SAIA-KZN Award for Architecture: Special Mention: Thanda Early Childhood Development Centre

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Architect(s): Architects of Justice (AOJ)

Author(s) Walter Peters

Location(s) Sipofu Rd, Qwabe Nyangwini, some 40km West of Mtwalume, South Coast

Keywords: community-based after-school care organisation, Thanda, Early Childhood Development (ECD), Beiersdorf, NIVEA, youth development programmes, Social Capital Consulting, rural, hilltop, Alessio Lacovig, Michael Rassmann, local labour, parasol planes, Francis Kéré’s, waterless tank system, carbon footprint is zero, Afrisam-SAIA Sustainable Design Award.

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Classrooms for Thanda Early Childhood Development

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Author(s) Mags Shapiro

Keywords: NIVEA’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy 2015-2020, Beiersdorf, NIVEA, family, Ubuntu, Thanda, treads very gently on the earth, biogas, solar energy, SEED library by Architects of Justice (AoJ), non-profit organisation, Corporate Social Responsibility.

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Corobrik Student of the Year 2019 & Year 2020

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Author(s) Walter Peters

Keywords: Mr Peter du Trevou, hybrid ceremony, Gideon Greyvenstein, Nelson Mandela University, ‘The Design of a Merino Wool Processing Facility in Barkly East, Eastern Cape’, Special Merit Award, Senzo Mamba, University of Johannesburg, ‘Bricolage: the architecture of waste’, Blake Smit, recycling centre, waste pickers, Arlington landfill site, Gqeberha, Andrew Palframan.

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Local Tactile Urbanism

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Author(s) Jon Edkins

Keywords: local ecology, exclusionary planning, social engineering, unequal and unsustainable social conditions, social inclusion, enclave developments, public projects, degraded city precincts, Durban Economic Development Cluster, gentrification trap, people-centred regenerative projects, eThekwini Catalytic Projects Unit, City Architecture Department, agents provocateurs, ‘Blue Mamba’, voluntary participation, SAIA-KZN Institute, Bulwer Park, Urban Farming, ‘ArtStrip’, broad community participation.

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Obituaries: Keith Alcock (1936 – 2021)

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Author(s) Paul Batho

Keywords: Professor Leslie T. Croft, Brian McLaren, Tommy Bedford, McLaren Alcock & Bedford, Bruce Peter, Paul Batho, Nick Beattie, Duncan Ross-Watt, Dave Atlas, Cassim Kadwa, Tony Keyte, Graeme Smith, Mike Jacobi, Gerry Holmes, Manqoba Khobani, Anglican Church, Durban’s Kingsmead Cricket Stadium, watercolour and perspective artist, drawing board and T-square emerged, Caister Hotel, soccer, rugby, Stella Sports Club, Two Oceans, Comrades Marathon, squash, hockey, John Ferguson, camping, hiking, 76 Valley View Road, retired in 1998, MAB Architects.

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Obituaries: Mthembeni Mkhize (1955 – 2021)

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Author(s) Angela Wilson (Baker), Mthulisi Msimang, Ruben Reddy, Adheema Davis, Lawrence Ogunsanya

Keywords: SAIA CEO, Head of the UKZN School of Built Environment and Development Studies, friendliness, infectious laughter, humility, Vice-President of SAIA-KZN, servant leadership, dignified leadership, equitable leadership, transformation, ngiyabonga kakhulu, hamba kahle, high work ethic, excellent leadership skills, genuine respect.

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A Travel Diary

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Author(s) Silvia Bodei

Keywords: Sardinia, Cagliari, history and cultural landscape, island, Nuragic, ‘nuraghi’, autonomous constructions, UNESCO World Heritage Site, ‘protonuraghi’, ‘tholos nuraghi’, open-air museum, Mediterranean Sea, Su Nuraxi at Barumini, Well of Santa Cristina, Paulilatino, cultural heritage, Punic necropolis of Tuvixeddu, Roman amphitheatre, Byzantine Basilica of San Saturnino, Cathedral of Santa Maria di Castello, Palazzo Regio, ‘city-landscape’, Neolithic period, F.C. Casula, La Storia di Sardegna, D.H. Lawrence.