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Kromdraai Valley Farm Krugersdorp, Gauteng LOUIS LOUW JOHAN BERGENTHUIN ARCHITECTS: Architect

Date: 2003 Client: Velridge Investments (Pty) Ltd Type: Homestead Style: Contemporary Status: Extant 2003 SAIA Award of Merit

Award of Merit Citation While a certain familiarity of architectural expression is evident, there remains a quiet reserve and finesse in the manner in which the sophisticated needs of the client are met in creating an ensemble of buildings. The architecture is most successful where it responds to integrating unassuming structure – cottage, stables and other residual site elements and vegetation – into the whole. The architect has successfully realised the idyll of a weekend retreat with habitation and landscape eliding into one continuous space. The project acts an exemplar of how pavilion-style buildings accommodate our informal way of inhabiting the South African landscape. It receives a national award of merit. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.