Workers’ Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa

Designed by Henry Paine + Barry Gould, Workers’ Museumis located in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa. Industrial heritage has enormous cultural significance for a city like Johannesburg where the markers of mining and industrial heritage are often regarded as inconvenient and ugly. The workers’ museum has value, not only by adaptively re-using an historical / industrial structure, but by... 

Tags: Architecture, Barry Gould, Canada, City, Henry Paine, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Gauteng, mining, Newtown, Royal Ontario Museum, South Africa, steel glass concrete, steel sections, thin steel