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Architectural Preservation

  • A book that celebrates the glorious heritage of Paarl
  • Review of Building Apartheid on Architecture and Order in Imperial Cape Town
  • Arnold Benjamin's Lost Johannesburg - A must have in a Johannesburg Collection of Books
  • From Mining Camp to Metropolis
  • A Look at Two Books by Hannes Meiring
  • The Old Hotels of Cape Town (1890-1911) by Michael Walker
  • Franco Frescura reviews 'Architectural Conservation in South Africa since 1994: 100+ Projects'

From our Archive

  • The charter of ‘singing tomorrows’
  • The Last Man to Walk out of Delville Wood ... was a Dundee Man!
  • George Pilkington - The Elderly Gentleman Who Kept up The Good Work
  • Construction of Graaff-Reinet’s Van Ryneveld’s Pass Dam Wall (1920-1925) - Three photographic collections present a historic engineering narrative
  • The home of jailed activist Seth Mazibuko
  • Wonder Theatre for the Miracle City - Opening Programme Find
  • The “loving gesture” has proved to be wholly destructive...
  • Corrugated Irony - A Short History of the Tin Roof
  • The first printed map of South Africa - The Martin Waldseemüller map
  • Parkhurst House had enough explosives to ‘blow up Johannesburg’
  • Stereo Photography - Mesmerising viewers since 1851
  • Rickshaws of early Johannesburg
  • South African Gates of Yore – A Photographic Portfolio
  • The English Cricket Legend who Settled in South Africa
  • Looking back at the Woolff Restoration of the Donkin Row Houses

From the Directory

  • Erica Davison THL
  • Green Point Ratepayers and Residents Association (GPRRA)
  • Old Wynberg Village Society
  • Eastern Cape Institute of Architects (ECIA)
  • Jeremy Hazell Universal Access Consultant
  • St Ursula's Museum, Art Gallery & Research Centre
  • Mpumalanga Heritage
  • Brixton Community Forum (BCF)
  • Gauteng Provincial Government - Department of Infrastructure Development - Directorate of Public Healthcare
  • The Heritage Foundation (Die Erfenisstigting)
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