For those we’ve collaborated with over the past year, it is no secret that Louis Karol and Peerutin Architects have merged. The combination of Louis Karol’s client base and contacts across the globe and Peerutin’s design and management skills has resulted in a proliferation of work for the merged practice. New projects are underway in the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Ghana, and Israel as well as locally in the Western Cape. Louis Karol is one of…
I have two things to say about the Corona Virus and the lockdown. Firstly, I write to thank our Clients for agreeing to work with us and, equally importantly, to continue to pay us through this crisis. They are helping sustain us and save jobs, but they are also keeping the economy going! Secondly I am actually excited by the opportunity that collaborative working presents. Since I returned from London over 20 years ago I…
We all know that contractors who build houses need to be registered with the NHBRC. We also know that the projects themselves need to be registered with the NHBRC. What developers, especially first time developers, may not know is that they too need to be registered! Not only that, but apparently one can only be registered as a home builder in one company at a time. How will this bureaucracy strangle development!?
Earlier this week the South African Institute of Architects released the findings of its survey into the state of the profession to members. The findings do not make encouraging reading: Extrapolating the number and value of projects from the survey it is estimated that SAIA Practices handle 11,570 projects with a total value of R12.7 Billion in fees. 41% are private individual projects but they make up only 19% of value. 49% of Practices consist…
A panel discussion on 15 October at MIPIMUK with representatives from Fifth Wall, Gecina, HotDeskPlus, Knotel and Orms. Some thoughts and observations: Introducing hospitality, amenity and technology into the workplace, the latter allowing people to work in many different kinds of environments. Reinventing the workplace to foster collaboration. Being able to work from virtually anywhere with a laptop, headphones and wifi, office space is no longer needed for the desk itself…but for socializing. For millennials…
“Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.” -Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream Once, when bemoaning the lack of pro-active support from Council Officials to help expedite approvals, some wise developer, who had also worked in the public sector, remarked that public sector officials are not focussed on facilitation and expedition, but only on compliance,…
