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South Africa is an ever-evolving, dynamic country – which over the recent years has seen the emergence of landmarks that have achieved global recognition. In Cape Town, there’s the distinctive elevation of Heatherwick Studio’sZeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. In South Africa’s Western Cape, there’s the free-flowing concrete roof of the Bosjes Chapel, designed by Steyn Studio. And, in a design only unveiled last year, there’s the granary-inspired Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library in Johannesburg, designed by 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner Sir David Adjaye.
These landmarks play, or are going to play, a significant part in shaping South Africa’s future architectural heritage. Co-existing with these landmarks, however, is the spatial inequality that is a feature of many South African cities – an inequality borne out of the legacies left by South Africa’s racist Apartheid government. Apartheid, far from being a system only codified by laws, was also struc
Travel + Leisure – a New York-based lifestyle institution – has named Camps Bay beach in Cape Town as one of the best in the world – and there was plenty to wax lyrical about for our friends across the water. However, they were impressed by a particularly ‘unique’ feature that very few other beaches can boast about…
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Cape Town beach bags major accolade
You know the score by now: Camps Bay is the premier beach in Cape Town. Alongside the Clifton coast and the secret coves of Bakoven, this iconic stretch of sand is one of the main reasons visitors come to the Mother City: It’s a postcard-perfect vision of a tourist haven – with city attractions and rows of bars and restaurants right on the doorstep.
Meanwhile, in the background, first-time buyers and investors were flooding to the developers’ sales offices to snap up these tiny apartments.
The sheer speed of the sales was almost unprecedented. Micro-apartments at Newlands Peak in Newlands (by Rawson Developers) sold out entirely on launch day. BlackBrick Cape Town in the city’s CBD (by Ryan Joffe Properties) sold 60% of its micro-units in its first week. The Flamingo in Sea Point (by Signatura) enjoyed similar success, with only 5 of its compact studios still listed as available.
So, what is the secret behind the appeal of these controversial, small-space properties?
“One of the biggest and most obvious attractions of micro-apartments is their relative affordability,” says Brad Morgan, Head of Marketing at Rawson Developers. “With interest rates as low as they are today, first-time buyers can get their hands on a micro-unit in a top-tier lifestyle development for a very similar monthly outlay to what they would no
EFF antics at the start of a State of the Nation Address have become a regular occurrence - but, this year, the party will have no MP present in the National Assembly chamber.