Heatherwick Studio   South Africa   The grain silo of Cape Town had since the 1920s been used to store and process corn coming from different parts of South Africa. Over twenty years after it closed down, it has undergone an overhaul to house the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Noero Wolff Architects   South Africa   Commissioned by the Provincial Government, this high school goes up in Khayelitsha, one of the largest informal settlements in South Africa, located on the outskirts of Cape Town. The population density in this area is very high, and its half a milli

gmp Architekten   South Africa   Como un fanal translúcido de volumen ovalado y cubierta en forma de silla de montar, el estadio se integra como un elemento artificial en el paisaje del Cabo de Buena Esperanza.

If for the architects of modernity silos were an iconic reference, for architects of today they are a mark of the past, and something to act upon. This is true for the British Thomas Heatherwick, who working on a 1920s grain silo in Cape Town (South