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Van Der Merwe Miszewski Architects Featured
core business
Commercial & Resindential Architecture
address
163 Bree Street,, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 8001
tel
+27 (0)21 4235829
fax
+27 (0)21 4235823
VAN DER MERWE MISZEWSKI ARCHITECTS Pty Ltd was founded in 1993 by Macio Miszewski and Anya van der Merwe Miszewski on their return to South Africa after five years of study and work in the United Kingdom.
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About
The practice has been involved in a wide range of building types : Residential - individual and group; Educational - science centres, a music school and a high school; Cultural - museums and display centres; Commercial - office developments and airport buildings, Retail – shops, shopping centres; Restoration projects; and Public Buildings.The practice has recently been involved as design leader in two associations in Cape Town (the CTICC) and Johannesburg (De Beers Headquarters Building)Philosophy: a shared dedication to the pursuit of excellence in design - to weld together appropriate design within established financial parameters.
Goal: to best interpret the unique requirements of each client and to thereby assist in the creation of appropriate and accurate briefs - creativity and inventiveness are the most effective tools in this pursuit.
Form: we seek an architecture, which may suggest a timeless simplicity and elegance. The practice has participated in feasibility studies for large scale developments. Our interior design consultancy has completed a range of high profile retail interiors.
Awards
1997 SAIA Project Award for a house in Johannesburg2000 SAIA Project Award for a Winery
2003 SAIA Project Award for ‘Bridge House’
1997 SAIA Merit award for a house in Cape Town
1999 the practice received the SAIA Project Award and the Award of Merit for two houses in Cape Town.
In 1999 the practice was awarded the prestigious AR+D award hosted by AR Magazine (London UK) - an International design competition in ‘recognition of excellence in executed designs’
2001 the WORLD ARCHITECTURE Award for the Best Building in Africa/Middle East.
In October 2005, the TREE HOUSE was voted the BEST BUILDING in South Africa in a public opinion poll hosted by VISI Magazine and the South African Institute for Architecture.
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