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Title: Victorian facebrick house and stonework, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture
Description: Guard House, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17204

Title: Former church, Cape Town, 1984
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Urban development, Commerce, Architecture
Description: Customers buy fruit and vegetables in what was a church.
Identifier: islandora:17311

Title: Capricorn Park
Subject: Capricorn Business and Technology Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Business parks--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Capricorn Park, Capricorn, Cape Town. Plant plan, phase 1. Technical drawings with tree positions, and shrub and groundcover setting-out rations and quantities., Computer base drawing on tracing paper, with hand-drawn additions and notes in ink., Plan: scale 1:500
Identifier: islandora:22373

Title: Boschendal Estate, Groot Drakenstein
Subject: Estates (agricultural), Pavilions (garden structures), Boschendal Estate (Western Cape, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Western Cape--Designs and plans,
Description: Boschendal, Groot Drakenstein, Western Cape. Concept proposal for garden pavilion overlooking lily pond. Hand-drawn in ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:100
Identifier: islandora:22356

Title: Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope, Colonialism, Architecture, Marching bands
Description: Military ceremony on De Kat balcony at the Castle, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17108

Title: Demolition of the old railway station, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Demolition, Architecture, Urban development, City planning
Description: [Rubble] covers the old concourse where commuters once ran for their trains.
Identifier: islandora:17418

Title: Lower Adderley street, Cape Town.
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, Commerce, Roads
Description: Lower Adderley Street as it appears today: excavation has been made to receive a combination of concrete tunnels that will convey the city's storm water to the new harbour.
Identifier: islandora:17364

Title: Pinelands Methodist Church, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Where people pray - Methodist Church (Pinelands) - The modern-styled Methodist Church at Pinelands is guarded by two pine trees and fronted by a garden and a crazy-paved path. Wide teak doors, surmounted by high wooden caves, lead from Union Avenue into the porch of the church, which superseded the old church next door in 1952. The church buildings include a hall, opened in 1940, and a manse.
Identifier: islandora:17278

Title: The Cape Argus Buildings,Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Media, Journalism, Architecture,
Description: The Argus Building, c.1940s
Identifier: islandora:16683

Title: Glenhurst Wine Farm, Stellenbosch
Subject: Estates (agricultural), 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. Working drawing of landscaping for homestead and werf. Original drawing in ink on tracing paper., Base plan: scale 1:200(?)
Identifier: islandora:22429

Title: Kirstenbosch
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Kirstenbosch (South Africa), National Botanic Gardens of South Africa, Botanical gardens--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town, ianford_kirstenbosch_005.jpg
Description: Kirstenbosch building section for the proposed new Centre for Home Gardening, at the North Gate, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Rhodes Drive, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa. This drawing formed the third of a series of posters submitted as a competition entry to SANBI. This was the winning entry. The initial proposal was for a green roof building, sunken into the embankment, so as to allow optimal mountain views unobstructed by buildings. However due to budget constraints, the Centre form home gardening was redesigned to suit a more conventional construction methodology., Scale 1:25 (orginal drawing for competition entry)
Identifier: islandora:22515

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

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