Innholdsfortegnelse for February - March 2020 i House and Leisure

Welcome to your CITY Issue of HL, a themed roundup of inner city spaces and faces, where we take you inside some of the most exciting projects on our radar; spaces that speak to and challenge our way of living as we enter the next decade. ‘We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.’ - Jane Jacobs This couldn’t be more true. In this issue we’ve gathered a small community of people who are engaging with this head-on, all making change through their work and home life. First up we take a tour of a Vredehoek house built by two architects for their two families, on page 62. For their city dwelling these friends created a house that would function as two homes. ‘We were determined…

SHOP TECH We’ve picked this brightly coloured advanced umbrella for its innovative engineering. With embedded patent technology, it can withstand wind gusts of up to 72mph. It also has UV protection & is made with water-repellent materials. $79.99 from Amazon.com. For more shoppable products, go to our website. CITY BRUNCH What better way to start the day than with a Bloody Mary and cheesy toasties? Scan the code for the step-by-step recipes. MODERN COMMUNAL LIVING Scan & take a video tour of this Cape Town home split down the middle. Two architects, (& owners), worked together to create a masterpiece in ‘shared living’. AN ART-FILLED CONCRETE JUNGLE We take a tour through Joburg’s thriving street art scene – uncovering the works of Rasty, Faith47, Tapz and more. Scan the QR…

CHEESEBURGERS WITH SPICY SLAW BURGERS 800g coarsely minced beef with a good amount of fat (about 20 per cent) 3 tsp oil 6 bacon rashers, rind trimmed and halved 6 soft burger buns 100g coarsely grated cheddar 100g coarsely grated Emmental Sriracha and tomato slices, to serve SPICY SLAW 500g cabbage (about 1/3 small cabbage), thinly sliced ½ small white onion, thinly sliced 75g (1/4cup) mayonnaise 2 tbsp sour cream 3 small red chillies, finely chopped (seeds optional) Handful of flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped 2 tsp white wine vinegar 1. For spicy coleslaw, combine all ingredients in a bowl, season and refrigerate until required. 2. For the patties, season beef with salt, form into 6 patties and flatten to 1.5cm thick. Heat a large frying pan to a high heat.…

Why can’t we complete the incomplete Foreshore freeways? Why don’t our cities have vibrant public squares like Puerta del Sol in Madrid? Can’t they bring back trams? What if we built a High Line like New York?’ Very few dinner parties pass by without these questions being thrown my way when I share my passion for improving cities, communities and spaces in my work at Our Future Cities. In a period of rapid urbanisation – 900 million people are expected to move into African cities in the coming few decades – economic and political volatility, a housing crisis, and our energy crisis, for the individual or household, the path to creating better cities for all to live in can seem quite daunting, if not overwhelming when faced with a barrage…

A trailblazer in Cape Town’s urban renewal movement, Robert Silke cares about making buildings that extend the rich mythology of the city, woven by artists and storytellers. The architect’s most recent creation, Tuynhuys, wedges into a narrow site on historical Keerom Street in the city centre – a former gracht (canal) where sailors who rowed their dinghies up from the harbour into an unexpected dead end were forced to turn around or keer om (turn around). As a contemporary building that has only just come into being, Tuynhuys feels like a structure that dates from the past, yet belongs to the future. Traces of the Art Deco movement can be read in the building’s sculptural forms. Silke speaks openly and enthusiastically about his great love for Art Deco, explaining that…

ROCK N ROLL! Woven Rocker chair by Douglas and Douglas, R5 450. BUILDING BLOCKS LEGO House in Denmark, filled with 25 million Lego bricks. Imagine that! COLOUR CRUSH Kare’s Happy Day Vase, R1 370. FOLLOW THIS: @1000VASES Exhibition curated by @meetmyproject for Salone del Mobile 2020 in Milan. AROUND THE WORLD Phaidon’s ‘Houses – Extraordinary Living’ is on my reading list. CITYSCAPES Olivié Keck’s artworks set the scene for this issue. See more on our Openers. CLASSIC BLUE Pantone’s new colour of the year 2020. CITY GUIDE Cycle through Pretoria, Durban, Joburg and Cape Town, page 20. COUCH CONVO Clothing becomes couch in this Balenciaga collab with Russian furniture designer Harry Nuriev, unveiled at Design Miami. * FOLLOW OUR PINTEREST BOARD AT HOUSEANDLEISURE, AND SEE WHAT OUR ED IS PINNING…

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‘WE DIDN’T WANT TO ARRIVE WITH ANY PLANNED IDEAS OF WHAT WE WOULD DO... BUT WE WANTED TO BE INSPIRED BY THE CONTEXT, TAKE TIME TO UNDERSTAND IT AND MEET PEOPLE TO COLLABORATE WITH.’ Corrugated metal, in all its shapes, colours and textures, is inextricably tied to the contemporary South African landscape and for Cara / Davide – a South African-Milanese design duo – the metal’s possibilities go far beyond material. The two designers, Cara Judd (South African) and Davide Gramatica (Italian), who are based in Milan, recently spent some time as designers-in-residence at the Conrad Hicks Metal Studio working with Conrad and other local artisans and specialists to realise a prototype collection of beautiful furniture pieces called Ondulato, that challenge our perceptions of the material. ‘When we develop a…

Ever heard that thing that people say about not taking your work home with you? Stephen Hitchcock and David Long of Stretch Architects are certainly not those people. In 2015, the friends and business partners were facing the same dilemma – both wanted to move their families into Cape Town’s City Bowl but both were impeded by prohibitive property prices. ‘We were determined to find a way to live in the city and the only way to do that was to share space,’ says Stephen. So when a little sliver of a plot in Vredehoek became available – situated at the foot of Table Mountain, and overlooking the city and Cape Town’s harbour beyond the scenic Philip Kgosana Drive – it was, as David says, ‘a no-brainer’. While budget constraints…

Something of a mantra for designers Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama of Studiomama is ‘Waste not want not’. This husband-and-wife design team based in London, has a commitment to design that is borne out of a process of invention and reduction, rather than the elaboration of a decoration style. With this same thinking recycling and reimagining are critical and constant themes in their work and is clearly evident in the London cottage that they created as a rental for a family of four. At just 45m² in size, creative thinking has allowed them to completely remould the existing structure of the cottage: the former garage is now a compact and clever space comprising of two living areas; a kitchen, a dining area, as well as two bedrooms and a bathroom.…

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Nandipha Mqoco’s PRETORIA Digital entrepreneur / Master of ceremonies The best street in Pretoria? Bronkhorst St, when all the jacarandas are in bloom. Prettiest park? The gardens and grounds surrounding the Union Buildings. Bookstore? Protea Bookshop. Bottlestore? Johnny’s Liquor. Most comfortable couch? The ones at Bravo Pizzeria in Hatfield – best pizza spot. Store you wished your house looked like? Industrial Coffee Works in Centurion. Pretoria’s most interesting people? Our taxi drivers. Top culture spaces? Pretoria Art Museum, the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria and the Voortrekker Monument. Space to watch the sunset? Waterkloof. A great tree? The jacaranda, of course! Best walking neighbourhood? Midstream Estate. Cocktails? Altitude. Cinema? Cinema Nouveau at Brooklyn Mall. Best place for a first date? De Kloof restaurant. If you had to…

Few topics inspire so much debate among city residents as street art, in particular graffiti, which is why we wanted to get a few of the country’s most prolific street artists and public art practitioners together to understand the finer points of the conversation. We gathered around Houtlander’s fantastic Pride Bench, created to raise funds for LGBTQ pride shelters, in the new offices of celebrated public art initiative #Artmyjozi (an arm of The Trinity Sessions) to understand what all the fuss is about. Around this month’s ‘table’, House and Leisure’s Garreth van Niekerk was joined by rising star Dbongz (fresh from his recent trip to New York City where he was painting walls in Brooklyn as a guest of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Foundation); Kalashnikovv Gallery’s former street artist-turned…

South African photography is being celebrated at exhibitions and art fairs around the globe, but there are few spaces within South Africa itself where local audiences can go to appreciate and learn more about the intricacies of the medium. It’s one of the reasons why there is so much excitement around the launch of the forthcoming Roger Ballen Centre for Photography in Forest Town, Johannesburg – and why we just had to get a look inside the space before it even opened, or actually even installed its front doors. The centre, located across the road from the iconic Four Seasons Hotel and the recently-completed Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, will realise the Roger Ballen Foundation’s 15-year dream to bring a photographic centre to the city. And, as we learnt on…

When Hallmark House launched in Johannesburg’s Ellis Park precinct, the developers asked a simple question in their campaign material: ‘Would you live here?’ It was, in fact, a big question for their new investors in CBD developments, particularly for one of the country’s most ambitious inner-city residential schemes. The multibillion Rand project brought in super-starchitect Sir David Adjaye to reimagine the giant residential tower, who said at the time, ‘I am very excited about Hallmark House. I could have gone anywhere in SA and built a luxury living space, but my focus is redeveloping buildings in areas with strong potential. This part of Johannesburg has tremendous potential and Hallmark House will be the start of a new wing of Maboneng for the city.’ Investors scrambled to get their piece of…

‘It’s about considering both proportion and shape, and understanding how to enhance that illusion even more.’ – Nina…