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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

The winners

BUILT Category

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

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

(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.

The Market Theatre Foundation Multipurpose Facility.