The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a passing parade that’s one of the enduring pleasures of Cape Town life. It also has some …
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Making Friday : On the Promenade
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Are round doors & windows a trend?
Isn’t it funny when you start noticing something – a colour or a shape – and then it just seems to be everywhere? I’m finding the Collections feature on Instagram has really ramped this up for me, giving me enormous pleasure as I sort the endless scroll of Instagram images into groups. One of my …
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#BriseSoleilSA competition
Not too long ago, when I wrote one of my BEST THINGS posts about all kinds of breeze brick walls and screens, I started the Instagram hashtag #brisesoleilSA, hoping to start a record of brise soleil walls and screens across South Africa. As you’ve posted your pics, we’ve been putting them onto a Google map. Take …
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Pier Luigi Nervi and the Good Hope Centre
Near the end of last year, Paul and I went to the Good Hope Centre to see the Pet Shop Boys, who were touring as part of the Sonar 2014 festival. What a great show it was, but for me, the big discovery of the night was all to do with the venue. Just about every Capetonian …
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Out & About: Shapes I like
Who’d have guessed that the SABS building in Rosebank would have such interesting shapes and colours for me to snap? By the way, if you like the shapes and colours in this post, you might enjoy a new Pinterest board I started recently, called Shapes I Like.
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OH14
I had such a brilliant time on Sunday, when I joined my friends Jo & Stu and rode our bikes out to Rondebosch/Newlands to join the first Open House Architecture tour this year. These tours are periodically organised by local architect Ilze Wolff, to showcase the architecturally significant buildings in Cape Town and surrounds. This …
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