Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Oliver Tambo International Airport Johannesburg, Gauteng PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT: Architect ERIC TODD, AUSTIN, SANDILANDS: Design Architect

Date: 1960s Type: Airport Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°07'59.80" S 28°13'55.51" E Alt: 1715m

Originally Jan Smuts Airport, it replaced the award winning building built in the early 1950s. In SA Panorama, February 1973 the building was described 'As a worthy gateway to South Africa it houses forty monumental works of art commissioned by a panel of art experts from amongst the younger generation of South African artists. The paintings, sculptures, tapestry, ceramics and copper work are situated throughout the public areas as well as in the transit and V.I.P. accommodation.' Click Here to see a selection of the works on Art Archives - South Africa. and Here to see an article by Geoff Bottom. Links to some of the artists and the works put up, most likely all demolished by now [2018]: Armando Baldinelli Eben Leibbrandt Esias Bosch Berrell Jensen Barbara Greig (no image of airport commission) Koos den Houting (no image of airport commission) Books that reference Oliver Tambo International Airport Chipkin, Clive M. 2008. Johannesburg Transition - Architecture & Society 1950 - 2000. Johannesburg: STE Publishers. pg 169 Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 67 ill