Clifton Terraces apartments on Victoria Road, Cape Town, designed by SAOTA, makes a striking but sensitively integrated architectural statement in the area’s distinctive cliffside setting.
Project name
Clifton Terraces
Location
Clifton, Cape Town, South Africa
Photography
Adam Letch & Niel Vosloo
Design team
Philip Olmesdahl, Mark Bullivant, Edward Peinke, Jo Nel, Christian Liebenberg, Melissa de Freitas, Peter Harel & Lichumile Monakali
Collaborators
OKHA (Bespoke Furniture), De Leeuw (Quantity Surveyor), Taupo Holdings (Pty) Ltd (Developer), SIP Project Managers (Pty) Ltd (Project Manager), All Round Pools (Pool Consultat), Graham Wood (Copy)
Environmental & MEP engineering
Sutherland Engineers
Structural engineer
JG Afrika
Construction
Haw & Inglis
Typology
Residential › Apartment
Modern laconic interior. In natural colors. The villa has a fairly large area. Main areas: Spacious living room; kitchen; master bedroom; guest rooms; and specialized technical rooms.
Architecture firm
Salah Fattah Architecture
Location
Pointe Sarene Beach, Senegal
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Salah Fattah
Design team
Alena Valyavko, Salah Fattah
Visualization
Alena Valyavko
Status
Under construction
Typology
Residential › House
SAOTA's project Kloof House took home Gold at the 43rd Annual Loeries Awards, in the Design category for Architecture. Winners were announced during Loeries Creative Week (21 - 22 October 2021) in Cape Town, which welcomed hundreds of creatives from across Africa and the Middle East.
Photography
Adam Letch & Micky Hoyle
The 21st century is marked by strong urbanization. Since 2008, more than half of the world’s population has been living in urban areas. This urbanization is generally accompanied by high-density development, which is associated with drawbacks such as air pollution and, above all, the lack of adequate space to accommodate this growing population.
Architecture firm
MEKEMTA Jodel Bismarc
Location
Vacant land in the wake of highways, Cameroon
Visualization
MEKEMTA Jodel Bismarc
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, SketchUp, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
MEKEMTA Jodel Bismarc
Typology
Mixed-Use Building
This SAOTA designed family home is positioned below Lion’s Head; with views of Table Mountain, Lion’s Head, Signal Hill, the city of Cape Town and the mountains of the Boland and the winelands in the distance, the architecture is shaped to take in as much of the surrounding as is possible.
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Photography
Adam Letch & Micky Hoyle
Design team
Greg Truen, Dov Goldring, Jaco Bruwer, Ian Cox and Puja Patel
Collaborators
SBDS Quantity Surveyors (Quantity Surveyor)
Interior design
OKHA (interior decor)
Structural engineer
Moroff & Kühne Consulting Engineers
Landscape
Franchesca Watson Garden Designer
Construction
Gossow & Harding Construction Pty (Ltd)
Material
Stone, Glass, Steel, Wood, Concrete and plaster
Typology
Residential › House
Dova Villa is a 3 floors villa that brings art and architecture in the structure and connects the first floor with the last with lines that give interior shade from the south facade and open for the North with a clear facade for the view of nature.
Architecture firm
Gravity Studio
Location
Juba, South Sudan
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mohanad Albasha
Visualization
Mohanad Albasha
Typology
Residential › House
Gravity Studio / Mohanad Albasha: Alyona villa is a unique lines that feels like an art piece on the Volta River with white colors with a futuristic design.
Project name
Alyona Villa
Architecture firm
Gravity Studio
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mohanad Albasha
Design team
Mohanad Albasha
Visualization
Mohanad Albasha
Typology
Residential › House
Two SAOTA designed projects – DDS in São Paulo, Brazil and La Reserve in Dakar, Senegal – have been shortlisted as finalists for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2021.
