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Title: Dutch Reformed Church, Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Three Anchor Bay (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: N.G Kerk, Three Anchor Bay - The Dutch Reformed Church at the Three Anchor Bay has an impressive tower and entrance porch and a bell tower near the gate.
Identifier: islandora:17306

Title: The Church of the Good Shepherd, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 1980
Subject: Kirstenbosch (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The Good Shepherd Church is a hundred years old this year.
Identifier: islandora:17314

Title: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, 1954. Cape Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17336

Title: Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1969
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, City planning, Transport
Description: Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, 1969.
Identifier: islandora:17442

Title: Dutch Reformed Sending Kerk (Mission Church), Long Street, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Church buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Suid-Afrikaanse Sending Gestig (D.R. Sendingkerk); Dutch Reformed Church in Long Street, Cape Town, 1966
Identifier: islandora:17332

Title: Church of the Visitation, Constantia, Cape Town, 1979
Subject: Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The Northern facade of the Church of the Visitation, showing Julian Elliott's controversial design.
Identifier: islandora:17316

Title: Church Square, Cape Town, circa 1870
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, Civil services, Church buildings
Description: Church Square has been much in the news lately with the closing down of the Civil Service Club (second and third building from the left) and its amalgamation with the City Club in Queen Victoria Street in 1976. This picture was taken in 1870, and shows the Gothic facade of the Rev. Dr. John Phillip's church (which later became incorporated in the Civil Service Club) and the pedimented building which began to house members of the club in 1865. Great changes have been made to both buildings since that year and even bigger ones can be expected in the years to come. Cape Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17481

Title: Cape Town Civic Centre
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Building
Description: New Civic Centre: overall view of the new Cape Town Civic Centre site on the Foreshore. The R6m basement contract is being handled by Murray and Stewart and is on schedule for completion in August, 1973. Matter & Weich (PTY) LTD.
Identifier: islandora:15093

Title: Restoration at Lutheran Church, Strand Street, Cape Town, 1978
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Restoration
Description: Workmen are repairing and restoring the historic Lutheran Church in Strand Street, the country's oldest building and one of a number of fine examples of 18th Century architecture in Strand Street. The copper spire, dominated by an orb and crown on the weathervane, is being painted to preserve it from the effects of sea air and pollution. The Rev Charles Ellefson, minister of the church, said it was last painted and repaired in 1970 when storm winds blew off the corrugated iron roof.
Identifier: islandora:17275

Title: Camps Bay beachfront development, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Building, Architecture, Recreation, Environment
Description: The new Promenade shopping centre on the beachfront at Camps Bay, currently being built by Ovcon (Cape) Building. The centre will be ready for beneficial occupation at the end of June [1987].
Identifier: islandora:16947

Title: Thatching, Blouberg, Cape Town
Subject: Bloubergstrand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Labour, Architecture, Building, Development
Description: Repairing an old thatched building at Blouberg, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16883

Title: Parliamentary Precinct
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Gardens (open spaces), Good Hope Theatre (Cape Town, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town, Public buildings--South Africa--Cape Town--Landscape architecture, Tuynhuys (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Good Hope Theatre and part of Tuynhuys, Cape Town, Western Cape. Parliamentary accommodation. Landscape sketch proposals: South Garden to the Good Hope Theatre, within the Parliamentary Precinct, Cape Town. This hand-drawn landscape plan is rendered with Pantone colour application, and indicates, with annotations, proposed planters, pathways and terraces., Scale 1:100
Identifier: islandora:22392

Title: Sandown Village Office Park
Subject: Planting plans, Business parks--Landscape architecture-- South Africa--Johannesburg, Office buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Johannesburg,
Description: Sandown Village Office Park, Johannesburg. Planting plan for block type C, including plant species., Ammonia copy (blueprint) of original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:28028

Title: Panoramic view of Green Point Common, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Green Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Building
Description: The Green Point Common, once an open grazing ground for cattle, has been transformed in recent years to meet the recreational and sporting needs of Cape Town's growing population. This panoramic view, taken on Monday from Signal Hill, shows the maze of playing fields, club houses and access roads now laid out across the Common from Three Anchor Bay (on left) to the York Road traffic circle and tree-lined Metropolitan Golf Course (on right). Conspicuous landmarks are the building and tower of Christian Brothers' College, Green Point (bottom right), the oval Stadium on the common, and Robben Island in the distance.
Identifier: islandora:15096

Title: Bellville Civic Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Afrikaners, Buildings, Architecture, Civil services
Description: 1970s architecture: Bellville Civic Centre and clock tower
Identifier: islandora:16776

Title: Mysterious tunnel unearthed, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: Mr Roy Chapman, site foreman on the Western Boulevard flyover project near Dock Road, inspects the mysterious tunnel unearthed by a bulldozer today. The tunnel, cut by hand through granite-hard walls, extends for at least 200m, and no records exist of the tunnel although a rusted sewerage pipe runs along the floor of the tunnel.
Identifier: islandora:15105

Title: Standard Bank, Adderley Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Commerce, Architecture, Building
Description: Part of the renovated Adderley Street branch of the Standard Bank.
Identifier: islandora:16748

Title: Granger Bay Court, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
Subject: Granger Bay Court (Cape Town, South Africa), Office buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Granger Bay Court, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town. Landscaping proposal: base drawing., Original, hand-drawn in ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:200
Identifier: islandora:22439

Title: St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, 1953
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17326

Title: Aska House, Newlands
Subject: Aska House (Cape Town, South Africa), Office buildings--Landscape architecture-- South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Aska House, Newlands, Cape Town. Landscaping layout., Hand-drawn additions CAD base plan., Not scaled
Identifier: islandora:22258

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