Freedom Park Museum in Pretoria, South Africa

Freedom Park Museum,  located in Pretoria, South Africa, Designed by GAPP Architects + Urban Designers, Mashabane Rose Associates and MMA Architects under the collaborative office OCA, the building is located within a garden of healing and remembrance overlooking the city of Pretoria; Freedom Park. The vision of //HAPO as a series of abstract boulders resonates with several traditional African ideas... 

Tags: Africa, Boulder, Freedom Park Museum, Geography, indigenous knowledge systems, Mashabane Rose Associates, MMA Architects, Pretoria, Pretoria Gauteng, Rocks, South Africa

181 William Street in Melbourne, Australia

181 William Street, designed by Bates Smart Pty Ltd situated on the corner of Bourke and William Streets in Melbourne’s CBD Australia consists of a 26 level split-core office tower. The podium is a floating grey zinc box held by white granite-clad columns, a contemporary companion to the bluestone Goldsborough Mort building on the opposite corner. The glass façade of the tower has a rich and varied... 

Tags: Architecture, Bates Smart Pty Ltd, Bluestone, Bourke Street Melbourne, Bourke Streets, City, energy, Geography of Australia, Goldsborough Mort building, important corner site, lively multi-level retail heart, Melbourne, Rocks, Spandrel, Stonehenge, William Streets