Articles:
Editorial
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Architect(s): G.J.B. Gallagher, S. Roberts, W.R. O’Beirne, Prof. B.E. Bierman, Small, Pettit and Baillon, Franklin, Garland and Gibson, Hallen, Theron and Partners
Author(s): Danie Theron
Location(s): Pietermaritzburg, Umlazi, Umhlanga Rocks
Keywords: Award of Merit, October 1974 to September 1976, Cabana Beach withdrew, Faculty of Arts Building, University of Natal, Beerhall, Umlazi: Port Natal Bantu Administration, Huletts Head Office, citation, certificate, plaque, record, province’s outstanding buildings
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
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
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
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): Pietermaritzburg
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
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
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
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
Changes
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Keywords: address, partnerships, Transfers in Class, membership, new members, Resignation, deceased
