8 October 2012
Connecting to Cape Town’s public life
Artist, avid cyclist and nominee for the Cergy 2012 Paris Ateliers competition, Lucie de Moyencourt has been working on a design park precinct in The Fringe – in her capacity at local architecture firm DesignSpaceAfrica. City Views put her in the hot seat about public space and what in Cape Town’s public life made her [...]
8 October 2012
Skate Town: An interview with longboarder Marco Morgan
Marco Morgan is a planner within the strategic and integrated planning directorate at the department of transport and public works. He’s also an avid longboarder who skates to work most days, and is a founding member of the National Skate Collective – an organisation helping to promote and advance the culture of skateboarding in the [...]
6 October 2012
Music in the Mother City
A range of live music events hosted in unexpected venues are helping connect Capetonians to a diverse urban soundscape. Here are three to look out for: 1. Sound sessions at City Hall City Hall has had many incarnations over the years – as City Council offices, a library, a classical and choral performance space. But [...]
2 October 2012
Harrington: An unexpected hotbed of activity
Harrington Street is starting to happen in an entirely new way. Read about six initiatives that are helping to animate this area in unexpected ways. 1. East City Alley: A place to create and congregate It began in an isolated alleyway on Harrington Street in The Fringe – an unlikely place for creativity. But with [...]
26 September 2012
British perspectives on rescripting architecture
City Hall played host to the AZA 2012 biennial architecture conference, held in Cape Town earlier this month. The conference used “Re:scripting Architecture” as a tantalising conceptual framework inside which speakers presented their work and challenged the practice of architecture. Lindsay Bush gives a snapshot account of two of the UK-based keynote speakers David Adjaye [...]




