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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon SONGLINE ARCHITECTS CC Established: 1990 Architect Was GROENEWALD PRELLER ARCHITECTS CC. The firm was started in Cape Town in 1990 by Trudi GROENEWALD and Deborah PRELLER. 2014 - Receive the Mbokodo Award for South African Women in the Arts. Award Citation: Trudi Groenewald and Debbie Preller are especially concerned about how the prevailing materialism manifests itself stylistically and undermines the integrity of good architecture, not to mention accentuating the discrepancy between the rich and the poor. A considerable amount of their work is executed in Mitchells’ Plain, Gugulethu, Bonteheuwel and Khayelitsha. Their broad spectrum of commissions ranges from education and community facilities to hospitals, clinics and highly specialised technical projects – a feat for this relatively small, female practice. Debbie is responsible for most of the sketch designs in the office and manages the community projects. Trudi, the first female president of the Cape Institute of Architects, considers the design of the Southern African Large Telescope Building at the Astronomical Observatory outside Sutherland as one of the highlights of her career. Attached is an article written by Frieda Le Roux and 'Ora JOUBERT. View (244kb) In 2023 Cilna DE WAAL joined the practice as a partner and the name of the practice was changed to SONGLINE ARCHITECTS CC.