Luis Ferreira-da-Silva + Johnston Architects

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western cape 69 Sixth Street, Parkhurst, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2193 P.O.Box 2012, Houghton, 2041 Tel: +27(0)11 880 3278 Fax: +27(0)86 614 9699 Mail: LFS@iafrica.com

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western cape gauteng 2 Oak Street, Greyton, Western Cape, South Africa, 7233 P.O.Box 2012, Houghton, 2041 Tel: +27(0)28 254 9660 Fax: +27(0)86 614 9699 Mail: LFSarch@iafrica.com

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Practice History 1973~1988 Durban Luis Ferreira-da-Silva Architects 1988~2000 Johannesburg Luis Ferreira-da-Silva Architects 2000~present Johannesburg LFS & J Architects 2000~present Western Cape LFS & J Architects

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Luis Ferreira-da-Silva & Johnston Architects Composed of architects as well as quantity surveyors and technical support staff. The common interest with all involved is an individual approach to each project resulting in unique spatial expressions and a high standard of innovative work. Within a controlled administrative framework while co- ordinating with allied disciplines in the building industry, the design and execution of work commissioned from proposal to completion stages is done, always upholding the standard of professionalism and design integrity for which it is respected. This approach has brought wide credit and recognition through publications, events and awards over the years.

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Awards 1973 National Architectural Competition 2nd place Omega Competition 1976 Skye, House Finkel & House Harris Durban ISAA special mention 1977 Portuguese Club Durban ISAA special mention 1985 House Philberg - Clifton SACIP Award of Merit 1986 Pam Palace Upgrading Durban Dulux Colour Award 1988 Três Joanas Complex Durban Dulux Colour Award 1990 Bobat Single dwelling Durban Dulux Colour Award 1991 Kok refurbirbishment Jhb Dulux Colour Award 1998 Northern Cape Legislature 1st Place int comp Projects built 2000 Williamson Residence Sandhurst Plascon Colour Award 2000 Skye Apartments Voted 2nd in a shortlist of 100 buildings most architecturally significant buildings of the millennium in Kwazulu Natal 2001 Bafokeng Civic Buildings Ltd comp for upgrade of Phokeng Civic Buildings - awarded mandate to design Council Chamber 2004 Northern Cape Legislature Dubai Architecture Plus Magazine Short listed as top 5 public buildings completed in 2002-2004 in Asia, Africa and the Orient. 2005 Northern Cape Legislature Nominated for National merit award after winning regional Merit award for Free State and Northern Cape Institute of Architects. 2006 Northern Cape Legislature Architecture Plus Project Awards for Africa, Middle East and Asia held in Dubai. Selected as one of the top 5 for the Northern Cape Legislature building. 2008 Northern Cape Legislature Italian Chamber of Commerce 1st prize in Urban Design Category for the creative use of organic materials in Architectural buildings of merit (NC Legislature) in the Oceania, Central & South America, & Southern Africa.

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Media & Events 1973 - present Articles of this firm's work have appeared in the following publications: Plan Magazine, Architecture SA, NPIA Newsletter, Habitat, Garden & Home, Style magazines, Sunday Times, Sunday Tribune, and The Star Newspapers, Architectural Digest, (USA) and ADA, Architect & Builder, Living and Planning magazines, O Seculo Newspaper Conde Nast, Jornal dos Arquitectos, Architecture and others. 1981 Mention in the publication International Handbook of Contemporary Developments in Architecture, published by the Greenwood Press in London, as an exponent of South African architecture, written by Professor Ivor Prinsloo. 1983 Member of the Jury for the "Des Baker" Awards. (LFS) 1985 Exhibition of firms work at South Africa House in London. 1987 Adjudicator for “Hotel in Ulundi” National competition organised by KFC and authorised by the Institute of South African Architects. (LFS) 1989 Invited to collaborate in issue of Environmental Design, by Professor Attilin Petruccioli - Rome and in Space and Society, directed by Gian Carlo de Carla. 1992 Adjudicator for the Facades national Competition, organised by the Everite Group and authorised by the Institute of South African Architects. (LFS) 1994 Visiting lecturer to Port Elizabeth School of Architecture and Architectural Institute of the Eastern Cape presenting firm's works. (LFS) 1999 Invited to present the Northern Cape Legislature winning submission, to the Ordem dos Arquitectos in Lisbon, Portugal (LFS) 2000 Invited by the Mpumalanga Institute of Architects to present firms work 2001 Invited to present lecture on Northern Cape Legislature to students and University of the Witwatersrand as part of series Buildings in a New Democracy (KJ) 2002 Invited to include the work as part of an South African exhibition at the Sao Paulo Bienalle. 2004 Northern Cape Legisalture incuded as part of book on comtemporary South African Architecture in 10 pears of democracy 2005 House McCrae Plettenberg Bay and House Kok2 Stellenbosch featured in a book on unique South African Homes 2006 Invited to submit various work for inclusion in a publication by Professor Ora Joubert titled, 10 years 100 buildings 2007 Invited to submit the Northern Cape Legislature for inclusion in Phaidon’s (London) International Architectural Atlas 08’/09’ 2007 Lectured at Architectural Congress in Cape Town on firm’s work title of lecture, Humour in Architecture 2007 Invited to publish firm’s work in the Phaidon Architectural International Atlas for 08” 2008 Italian Chamber of Commerce - 1^st prize in Urban Design Category for the creative use of organic materials in Architectural buildings of merit (NC Legislature) in the Oceania, Central/South America, & Southern Africa. 2009 Northern Cape legislature included in book Moda Artitettura South African Architecture of XX century - Italy 2011 Publication of African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architechture, White Skin, Black Masks, by Jonathan Alfred Noble