In the vibrant, culturally diverse setting of Maboneng precinct in downtown Johannesburg, Drivelines, designed by New York-based architecture firm LOT-EK and developed by Propertuity, is a 75 000 square foot residential shipping-container development, the largest of its kind in South Africa. Offering unique rental accommodation, the project celebrates the beauty of existing … [Read more...]
Benefits of designing and building your own shipping container home
There’s a serious trend these days with people designing and building their own shipping container modular homes. You don’t have to look very far to see these trendy house designs all over social media platforms like Pinterest and Facebook. Most people think the main appeal to building them is a the ease and speed of construction as well as the low building costs along … [Read more...]
A place of rest: an avante-garde retreat at the Mjejane Private Game Reserve
When a client approached Johannesburg-based Architects Of Justice and commissioned an avant-garde retreat he could disappear to, a journey began which would culminate in a recent Commendation for the project in the Mpumalanga Institute for Architecture (MPIA) Awards for Architecture 2017. The site for the project, situated within the Mjejane Private Game Reserve – a private … [Read more...]