From the Archives – good design is timeless
Intimate Zones at the Centre of Endless Horizons from 2005
This archival moment we share with you from 2005 issue 190 is, as always, one we’ve chosen that insists timelessness in style. The owner was a young entrepreneur based abroad. He also owned properties on other continents and travelled a lot, yet he selected Cape...
Fishermen, Beach and Iron Kite Houses on the Cape Coast Inform the Lightness of this 2007 Holiday Home
This holiday home, featured in habitat magazine more than a dozen years back, is located on a subdivision from the front garden of the established house on the upper side. Interpreting the local vernacular resulted in barn-shaped buildings as the most appropriate...
The Epitome of Early 21-st Century Island Life: Shingle Roofs Blend with Lush Tropical Flora
Banyan Tree Seychelles adds even more – for those with deep pockets – on the sleepy, tropical paradise that is Mahé, Seychelles. Six new, two-bedroom beachfront villas are joined by a new clubhouse; each villa has no less than two swimming pools. Architecture displays...
2007’s Casual Style honoured Comfort and Clean Elegant Lines mixed with Urban African Accents
A very old dilapidated house existed on this 1 100-square metre stand overlooking the Indian Ocean at Glenashley, KZN, South Africa. It was replaced by a contemporary beach house of 430 square metres. The client brief to architects emphasised clean lines and easy...
Art Dealer’s Lair
The architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Errill erected this vast white-brick temple to modernity in 1950 and called it Manhattan House. The architecture typifiesNew York in one of its most confident eras, a period of AmericanDesign coming of age on the world...
An Archival Celebration of Immortal Aesthetics
The cover of the first issue of Habitat – which appeared in May 1973 – an airbrush work by the renowned South African artist Norman Catherine, Electric Still Life. In a dingy litho print shop in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, the first printed issue of...