If you live in Cape Town and drive a car, you’ll have driven past Customs House many times as you set off away from the city on Nelson Mandela Boulevard. It’s on the harbour side of the elevated freeway, and as you drive past, you may have spotted a portion of an interesting blue tile mosaic, frustratingly …
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OH Thursdays: Customs House
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OH Tours: Hans Niehaus Gallery
On Thursday last week, thanks to OH Thursdays, I was lucky enough to snoop inside a building that has always intrigued me – the decades-long work in progress that is Hans Niehaus Gallery on Vineyard Road in Claremont. Apologies for some of the poor photos (I only had my phone camera with me). The Cape …
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OHA16: Rex Trueform
The Open House Architecture tour I went on last weekend – OHA16 in the series – is one I’d been looking forward to for some time, as I’d always wanted to see inside the Rex Trueform buildings, which have been out of use as clothing factories since the mid 1990s. The Rex Trueform factory buildings stand opposite …
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OH Tours: House Stekhoven
Last evening, I went on the next in the series of the Open House Thursdays series of architecture tours organised by OH Architecture, this time in Newlands. (If you missed last month’s tour of Gawie and Gwen Fagan’s Camp’s Bay home, click here). I’ve actually visited this home, just off Kildare Rd before, on the …
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OH Tours: Fagan Residence
On Thursday last week, Paul and I were lucky enough (along with 120 others) to get onto the OH tour of Gawie and Gwen Fagan’s iconic home. These are the photos I took. Gawie Fagan has been in private practice in Cape Town as an architect since 1964, and his buildings have contributed substantially to the …
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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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