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The Sentimental City
Italo Calvino’s seminal book, Invisible Cities is a collection of dreamlike short stories about cities visited by the traveller Marco Polo. One of these stories is about the city of Zaira, where he recalls the longing of romantic places one cannot forget.
Ring in the new year
Whilst strolling the unfamiliar streets of the Argentinian capital on the 31 December 2011, shreds of paper flew out of the windows of nearly all buildings in the microcenter. I was surprised and delighted by the occurrence...
A grand tour of Elphick Proome Architects’ studio
Many of us kick off January with New Year’s resolutions that we seldom stick to. One of mine is to learn more about South African architecture – and this is a resolution I am determined to keep.
Visual diary – a series
VISI friend and architect Hugh Fraser never ceases to amaze us. In between working for Glass South Africa, which involves much travelling, research and innovation, he documents his visual experiences with his camera.
CMAI Architects inspire others to follow
When I read the recent article Save the Werdmuller Centre by Remy Raitt and Dylan Culhane I was outraged and pretty disturbed that we still have to read articles like this to save old buildings.
New murals in Switzerland
I recently designed a series of four murals for the CONECO construction management firm in Zürich, Switzerland. The brief for this commission was for me to depict the four most prolific buildings in the firm’s portfolio to enhance its office interior.
Detail is a goddess
Over the past few weeks I have had the pleasure of travelling through India and Nepal on a sensory journey.
Gifting – how much easier can it get?
Two things happened today which set this blog in motion. The first was having the intense pleasure of viewing Frauke Stegmann’s extension to her ‘Rejected-Reconsidered’ porcelain collection...
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