In the Sport Category the 'Melting Pot' Soccer City Stadium was the overall winner. The building was designed by Boogertman + Partners, South Africa, in association with Populous, United Kingdom. The architects describe the building as:

'representing a regional approach aimed to integrate the urban context of Johannesburg , its society and the historical mining industry along with African culture as a whole.

The main form, inspired by the traditional African calabash, results in a stadium form that is immediately recognisable as being African. This form is used as a layering device and it enables an overall spherical form to emerge which informs the spatial quality of the intermediate spaces between the exterior skin and that of the seating bowl.'

 

Freedom Park //hapo Museum was shortlisted in the Culture Category. Designed by GAPP Architects / Urban Designers, Mashabane Rose Associates & MMA Architects the building sits on a 52-hectare site dedicated to the healing of our nation. The elements in this hilly, indigenous landscape tell the story of South Africa's painful journey to freedom and humanity. They stand in tribute to the spirit of resistance and the willingness to forgive which has made the South Africa of today possible. All the elements in the park are linked together by a spiral path,
Mveledzo.

Lastly, an entry by Paragon Architects, ICON. this project never won an award, but we really like it.