This five-unit seafront apartment building, designed by SAOTA with interior architecture by ARRCC, is located in the southern suburbs of Athens at the gateway to the Athens Riviera. It overlooks the beach and the Aegean Sea with views towards Aegina and the distant hills of Poros, while the Hymettus Mountain rises behind it.
Photography
Vangelis Paterakis, Panagiotis Voumvakis
Design team
Stefan Antoni, Philip Olmesdahl, Bobby Hugill, Albert van Jaarsveld & Serena Slamdien
Interior design
ARRCC. ARRCC Project Team: Michele Rhoda, Daniel Du Toit, Jeandre Toua
Collaborators
Free Architects / Christina Poulmenti (Architect of Record). Geotechnical Engineers: Sotiropoulos & Associates / Mr Sotiropoulos. Copy By: Graham Wood
Civil engineer
Iannis Konstas Engineers / Iannis Konstas
Structural engineer
Iannis Konstas Engineers / Iannis Konstas
Environmental & MEP
SKV Consulting Engineers / Stefanos Karagianis (Electrical Engineer)
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
This Cape Town pied-à-terre, near to the V&A Waterfront’s Silo Precinct, was conceptualised as a blank canvas for the owner’s growing collection of South African and African art. The precinct is anchored by the Zeitz MOCAA, which is not only the most significant art museum in the world dedicated to artists from Africa and the diaspora but is also...
Interior design
ARRCC, OKHA (Interior Decor)
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Design team
INTERIOR DESIGN TEAM: Michele Rhoda, Daniel Du Toit, Maajidah Sait, Anna Lisa Cunningham Cooper, Leigh Daniels. OKHA DESIGN TEAM: Adam Court, Luka Parkin
Collaborators
TEXT by Graham Wood
Material
Bulthaup sand beige aluminium. Bestwood timber floor. Limestone porcelain floor & wall tile. Rain grey Feature marble. Clamshell Caesarstone. Duco white wall cladding. Plaster & paint
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
Beyond is a contemporary setting for life and art, where the full comfort of a modern home is potently married to an elemental architecture drawn from its dramatic setting. Perched on the shoulders of Lion’s Head, the home, designed by SAOTA, springs from a steep hillside that drops off to the famous sequence of Clifton’s white beaches to the Twelv...
Location
Clifton, Cape Town, South Africa
Photography
Adam Letch, Stefan Antoni
Collaborators
OKHA (Interior Decor)
Structural engineer
Moroff & Kühne
Landscape
Nicholas Whitehorn Landscape Design
Lighting
Martin Doller Design
Construction
Cape Island Construction
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel, Stone, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
ARRCC designed project, Cheetah Plains in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, has been shortlisted as a finalist for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2021.
Designed by South African architecture studio SAOTA and developed by Aksoy Holding of Turkey, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Bodrum is the first stand-alone branded residences for Marriott International in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. Set on a 126,000 sqm private peninsula, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Bodrum is in Yalıkavak, a coastal...
Project name
The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Bodrum
Principal architect
Boran Ekinci Architecture
Interior design
ARRCC, Has+KOEN Architecture
Structural engineer
NODUS
Landscape
DS Architecture
Lighting
SLD Lighting Studio
Supervision
Hill International
Material
Concrete, Stone, Glass, Wood
Typology
Residential › Houses, Master Planning
ARRCC, acclaimed South African design studio specialising in interior architecture, interior design, and décor, will be featured in this year’s 25th Volume of the Andrew Martin Interior Design Review.
Photography
Left to Right: Nina Sierra Rubia (Junior Associate), Michele Rhoda (Director), Mark Rielly, (Director), Quintin Gilman (Junior Associate), Jon Case (Director)
Designed by SAOTA, a South African architecture studio known for advancing the possibilities of 20th-century modernism, this home represents the tradition of the terrace, with its emphasis on an outdoor orientation, but in a context and climatic condition vastly different from the origin of the type.
Photography
Sergey Ananiev
Design team
Greg Truen, Roxanne Kaye & Philippe Raffner
Collaborators
Max Kasymov & OKHA (Bespoke furniture), Troy Advisory LLP (Project Manager)
Interior design
Max Kasymov & ARRCC
Environmental & MEP
Alexander Boenich
Landscape
Klukva Landscaping
Lighting
Kseniya Rudkovskaya
Construction
Alexander Stroikov
Material
Silver-grey metal cladding, stone, glass, wood, concrete
Typology
Residential › House
