The recent World Architecture Festival 2010 awarded 2 South African architecture projects with distinctions.

While playing google earth tourist, I stumbled across my architectural thesis site. The existence of a rather predictable parking & commercial structure made me think about how large the gap between my fiction and Kloof Street's reality was.

A young architect whose first professional assignment was to design a series of police stations at key railway stations has won a top design award and is using all his prize money to create an Academy for Creative Excellence to help others succeed.

An institution in Greenpoint's nightlife, the Beaulah Bar & Somerset Road Cafe is getting a much needed face lift, or replacement in this case, by 3rdface architecture.

One of South Africa's inspiring young architects, Mokena Makeka has graced the pages of international ICON magazine. He already has got some good design under his belt, including the Thusong Services Centre, an Ordos 100 villa entry and a railway station revamp.

open house architecture recently hosted an opportunity for members of the public to visit five van der Merwe Miszewski residences.

Gauteng Institute for Architecture (GIFA) Regional Award for Architecture 2009 for Highveldt House, Gauteng.

Peter Rich has won the World Building of the Year Award for his Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre in Limpopo, a building on the site of an ancient civilisation which is also designed to highlight the fragility of the environment.

This 65,000 sq m centre, designed by Bentel & Associates International, was developed and financed by Zenprop Property Holdings, Investec and Richard Maponya, whose vision it was to create the centre.