Rooftop venues are all the rage in Jozi Which comes first – the chicken or the egg? In the case of the built environment it is surely the buildings which must precede the functional possibilities they offer. So as the supply of high rise inner city developments has increased, so the demand for a venue […]
Read More »Rosebank’s status as major business and leisure hub Neil Fraser who is a private consultant in the field of urban renewal, writes an amazing newsletter Citichat. Sadly since he has left Johannesburg to take up life in Montagu, these newsletters are less frequent than they were. Citichat is a Joint Venture with Urban Genesis Management […]
Read More »Potato Sheds make way for Newtown Junction In 2011 the old potato sheds behind the Market Theatre in Newtown, Johannesburg were demolished to make way for the first major retail and leisure investment in the city for a while. Planned as a mixed-use node it is being developed by Atterbury Property, facilitated by the Johannesburg […]
Read More »The space in-between or the uitvalgrond formed old Joburg city centre Just discovered a great website on Joburg (bit embarrassed I didn’t know of it before). It’s www. jhbwtc.blogspot.com and it’s the website of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. Based at Wits University, their work (as their name indicates) is academic and […]
Read More »Over ten years ago the concept of a Cultural Arc was mooted by Prof Carolyn Hamilton, then Head of the Humanities Postgraduate School at Wits. Envisioned as a metaphorical sweeping link between three powerful cultural institutions across the geography of the city, it would connect the Johannesburg Art Gallery on the east, to Wits in […]
Read More »On Tuesday evening, I went to 10 years On Air – the collaborative Review exhibition of the On Air partnership: Marcus Neustatter and Stephen Hobbs. Unexpectedly, Marcus was there to give a walkabout which made viewing particularly enjoyable and accessible . It was really good to see their production over the last decade – much of […]
Read More »Gerald Garner who wrote Spaces and Places Johannesburg as well as Johannesburg 10Ahead, has recently started walking tour of Jozi’s inner city. On 28th Jan a tour will leave from Mary Fitzgerald Square at 9 am. Billed to see the public art in Newtown, Turbine Hall, Chancellor House, the Anglo American campus, the Ashanti Hotel and […]
Read More »Public Art in Joburg Laurice Taitz is one of Jozi’s champions, particularly of the inner city. Here she writes about some of the public artworks among the 50 odd sites around Johannesburg. Her anecdote about a man coming up to her near Diagonal Street and begging her to take him to America, speaks volumes. His assumption that […]
Read More »Urban renewal in Braamfontein Have posted before on what is new and happening in Braamfontein. The ‘Renaissance’ includes: the Neighbourhood Goods Market the South Point building refurbishments for urban accommodation (sorely needed for Wits students) and the public art, starting with Van den Berg’s iconic Eland marking the entry into Braamies from the north and including […]
Read More »4 different walks in and around Joburg this week-end You can’t complain about the lack of variety of what’s on in Jozi this weekend: Sat …5th Nov at 14.00 Join Parktown Heritage Association for the last Jacaranda Walk of 2011; park at the La Roche offices, 54 The Valley Road; no booking necessary; R40; stunning […]
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