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FUTURE Category Overview: Proposed future developmental projects. It includes unbuilt work, proposals for projects or commentary. This category is separated into two sub-categories; Professional and Student. Trophy winner • Project: The Market Theatre Foundation Multipurpose facility • Architect: KHM Architects – Cape Town Merit Certificates • Project: Transitional Learning Centre • Architect: Noero Architects – Cape Town • Project: Sol PLaatje University Competition – Kimberley, Northern Cape • Architect: Savage + Dodd Architects – Johannesburg Student Merit Certificate • Project: Delft Exchange Towers – Cape Town • Student architect: Anees Arnold & Jonathan Wilson – Cape Town ADOPT category Overview: The Adopt-a-School Foundation is a non-profit organisation that supports the creation and enhancement of a conducive learning and teaching environment in disadvantaged schools. In this categories, entrants chose a school from a supplied list and submitted a design proposal. The winning proposal will be built in 2016 by Saint-Gobain in association with Adopt-a-School. Trophy winner • Project: Motshegofadiwa primary – Hammanskraal • Architect: Kate Otten Architects – Johannesburg People’s Choice Award Overview: All entries are posted on the social-gain.co.za website and people could vote for their project of choice, by liking sharing on social media. The project with the most support wins. • Project: Penguins Preschool • Architect: Stauch Voster Architects, Ecobrick Exchange Best Movie Award Overview: A special award was introduced by the judges to recognise an architectural practice that really embraced the format of digital submis- sions with a movie that told a story of a building, which demonstrated the fundamental principle of Social Gain, user satisfaction. East Coast Architects used one of the learners of the Vele Secondary School to take the viewer through the project highlighting every sustain- able design feature from the vegetable gardens to the recycling of ‘grey water’ in the bathrooms. This resulted in a documentary style movie, which made for a refreshing and innovative submission. Winner • Project: Vele Secondary School – Limpopo Province • Architect: East Coast Architects – Durban

The Market Theatre Foundation Multipurpose Facility.

and coming architects entering the fold and highlighted that the awards were unique in that it was refreshing to see submissions from both professional architects and student architects, competing along- side each other for the same award. Judges went as far as saying that the Social Gain awards raised the benchmark for South African architects to step up to the plate and push themselves to meet international standards. The awards attracted inter- national interest as visits to the official awards website were recorded from all around the globe with particular interest noted from the US with 538 unique visits and Germany with 487 unique visits. The People’s Choice award, which invited online public participa- tion attracted an impressive 8 896 votes in one week, another affirma- tion of the popularity the competition attracted. The Architecture for Social Gain Awards look specifically at the following types of building projects: a. Education – preschool to high school, colleges, universities, training colleges b. Community – buildings that are multifunctional and offer facilities like training, family law, counselling, AIDS, health education and trauma counselling c. Development – buildings such as training and sports centres and other facilities focused on human development Overview: Projects completed between January 2011 and June 2015. These are spaces where people can develop themselves. This includes new and renovated work. Trophy winner • Project: Outreach Foundation Community Centre – Hillbrow, JHB • Architect: Local Studio – Johannesburg Merit certificates • Project: Vele Secondary School – Limpopo Province • Architect: East Coast Architects – Durban • Project: SOS Children’s Village – Tadjourah, Djibouti • Architect: Urko Sanchez Architects – Kenya The winners BUILT Category

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(LEFT) BUILT Category Winners: Local Studio. Bongani Bingwa, Thomas Chapman, Elizabeth Barbier (French Ambassador to SA), Evan Lockhart-Barker. (RIGHT) FUTURE Category Trophy Winners:

KHM Architects. Bongani Bingwa, Denis Simonin, Wayne Mansfield, Evan Lockhart-Barker.

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