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Title: Oudekraal Resort
Subject: Recreation areas--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Picnic grounds--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Oudekraal Resort, Cape Town. Eastern braai area: landscape plan and detail. Plan shows site features, vegetation, pathways, retaining structures and braai structures., Blueprint (ammonia copy) of original, hand-drawn, ink on paper.
Identifier: islandora:28085

Title: Malay Quarter restoration, Cape Town, 1978
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Architecture, Demolition
Description: These houses at the junction of Hout Street and Chiappini Street are beyond restoration. Under the second stage of the restoration scheme this site would be cleared and zoned for commercial purposes.
Identifier: islandora:17227

Title: St. Mary's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Where people pray: St. Mary's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt is the mother church of Roman Catholicism in South Africa. Built in 1851, it was restored and enlarged in 1927. Its fine cedar wood ceiling is as sound as it was when the cathedral was first built.
Identifier: islandora:17283

Title: Government Avenue on Easter Weekend, Cape Town, 1958
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Recreation, Architecture
Description: Bustle of people and traffic - the familiar Saturday rush in Cape Town - was replaced by this cold, deserted scene at the foot of Government Avenue today when the city emptied for the Easter week-end.
Identifier: islandora:17349

Title: After the fire at Newlands House, Cape Town, 1981
Subject: Newlands (Cape Town, South Africa), Housing, Demolition, Fires, Cape Dutch architecture
Description: The chimneys of Newlands House, Newlands Avenue, built in the time of Lord Charles Somerset, after a fire that gutted the historic home in 1981.
Identifier: islandora:17267

Title: Standard Bank, Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1930s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Commerce, Architecture, Building,
Description: Cape Town Adderley St. branch of the Standard Bank after the addition of two upper storeys in the 1930s
Identifier: islandora:16749

Title: Matla Collinery, Eastern Transvaal
Subject: Coal mines and mining--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Kriel--Designs and plans,
Description: Matla Colliery, Kriel, Mpumalanga. Landscape architecture master plan., Photographic copy of ammonia print of hand-drawn original (extract from portfolio).
Identifier: islandora:28143

Title: Muratie Estate, Stellenbosch
Subject: Trees, Planting plans, Muratie Wine Estate (Stellenbosch, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Stellenbosch--Designs and plans, Historic farms--South Africa--Stellenbosch,
Description: Muratie Estate, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. Proposed landscape design master plan. Tree planting and dimension plan. Revision of August 1989 plan., Original hand-drawn, ink amendments on sepia copy of hand-drawn base.
Identifier: islandora:27962

Title: Groot Constantia: general restoration
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Wine estates, Groot Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic farms--South Africa--Cape Town--Design and plans, Historic farms--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Wineries--South Africa--Cape Town--Design and plans, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Laterite Road and Path, Low retaining wall and steps: this hand-drawn, technical working drawing, using pen and ink on tracing paper, shows the hard-landscape construction detail of the historic avenue leading up to the manor house, with gravel surface and stone pitched side channels, smaller pedestrian pathways with cobble edging, stone retaining walls; and masonry steps with plastered and painted edge walls within the historic farm werf of the Groot Constantia Wine Estate, Groot Constantia Road, Cape Town, South Africa. The drawing includes a detailed plan, and detailed sections, with dimensions and annotations indicating materials, finishes and connections., Scale 1:20 and 1:10 on A1 size. Drawing number: 301/WD/07. Details No. 4,7,12. (Cross Reference: Dwg. No. 301/WD/01 & 02)
Identifier: islandora:22444

Title: Mont Rochelle Mountain Vineyards, Franschhoek
Subject: Mont Rochelle Mountain Vineyards (Franschhoek, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Franschhoek--Designs and plans, Farms--South Africa--Franschhoek,
Description: Mont Rochelle Mountain Vineyards, Franschhoek, Western Cape. Landscape design for the garden area at the back of the residence., Original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:27964

Title: Muratie Estate, Stellenbosch
Subject: Water gardens, Muratie Wine Estate (Stellenbosch, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Stellenbosch--Designs and plans, Historic farms--South Africa--Stellenbosch,
Description: Muratie Estate, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. Proposed water garden: plan and section., Original, hand-drawn, ink on paper, rendered with colour pencils.
Identifier: islandora:28070

Title: Interior, Baxter Theatre, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Theater, Apartheid, University of Cape Town, Education, Architecture,
Description: Interior of the University of Cape Town's Baxter Theatre, Rondebosch, Cape Town, designed by architect Jack Barnett in a modernist style inspired by the Scandinavian National Romantic Movement.
Identifier: islandora:16736

Title: Church Street, Cape Town, 1974
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, Commerce, Roads
Description: Standard General Insurance Company has paid R150 000 for this Church Street, Cape Town, property adjoining its building at the corner of Church and Adderley streets. The site area is 157,5sq m. The building comprises ground floor shops and two office floors. The company says the property was brought as an investment but offers the possibility for future extension of its present building.
Identifier: islandora:17497

Title: Construction of Sanlamhof office block, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Building, Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Commerce
Description: Work ahead of schedule. Work on Bellville's biggest office block, Sanlamhof, is well ahead of schedule and when the contractors, Murray and Stewart, go on holiday they will have met all their deadlines to date. They moved on to the Sanlamhof site in June last year with two definite hand-over dates required of them. But Christmas last year they were asked to add a further (fourth) floor of 2000 sq m to the Sanlamhof block and by Christmas of this year to complete five further floors on top of the lower floors. In addition, they had to erect a 280 sq m service core (consisting of four lifts, toilets) to one side of the enlarged complex and to install the top half of a new central lift shaft so that it can eventually serve the new floors as well. All these deadlines will be met on schedule.
Identifier: islandora:16828

Title: Garden, Bishopscourt
Subject: Swimming pools, Terraces (landscaped-site elements), Dwellings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: House, Bishopscourt, Cape Town. Sketch plan of new swimming pool and terrace. There are three sections., Paper copy of hand-drawn original.
Identifier: islandora:28108

Title: Muratie Estate, Stellenbosch
Subject: Water gardens, Muratie Wine Estate (Stellenbosch, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Stellenbosch--Designs and plans,
Description: Muratie Estate, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. Sketch plan of proposed water garden. Revised., Original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:28019

Title: Wale Street, Cape Town, 1800s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Church buildings, Roads, Urban development
Description: Wale Street and St. George's Cathedral, circa 1852.
Identifier: islandora:17366

Title: House Camerer, Newlands
Subject: Dwellings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: House Camerer, Newlands, Cape Town. Landscape architecture sketch-plan 02., Original hand-drawn in ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:50
Identifier: islandora:22467

Title: Glenhurst Wine Farm, Stellenbosch
Subject: Wineries, Planting plans, Glenhurst Wine Farm (Stellenbosch, South Africa), Quoin Rock Wine Farm (Stellenbosch, South Africa), Farms--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Stellenbosch,
Description: Glenhurst Wine Farm, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. Proposed winery landscape sketch-plan for submission to the local municipality. Includes proposed plant list. Original drawing in ink on tracing paper., Sketch-plan: scale 1:500
Identifier: islandora:22428

Title: Interior, Baxter Theatre, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Theater, Apartheid, University of Cape Town, Education, Architecture
Description: The foyer of the University of Cape Town's Baxter Theatre, designed by architect Jack Barnett.
Identifier: islandora:16733

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