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		Reserve Bank Johannesburg, Gauteng George Esslemont Gordon LEITH: Architect Fanuel John Christopher Chaane MOTSEPE: Architect interior modifications and roof structure

Date: 1938 : n.d. Type: Bank Status: Extant Street: Simmonds St   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°12'22.30" S 28°02'23.18" E Alt: 1739m

(SAB Dec 1934:57; SAB Feb 1935:55 tend; UWA:R320-3209; Greig 1971:198) The Reserve Bank has the austerity and grace of Swedish masters like Ivar Tengbom. The simplicity and the unmoulded framing of windows begins to defer to modern developments, carried further in his later work where classical motifs are minimized on sheer facades relying on fine proportioning of fenestration. This building stands at the point of movement away from classical precepts towards greater simplicity, in deference to if not in sympathy with the Modern Movement. (Bernard S Cooke in UIA, 1985: 58) Read Looking back on the restoration of the majestic Reserve Bank Building by Lucille Davie, March 31, 2020, on The Heritage Portal. Interior modifications and the new structure on the roof were added by FJCC MOTSEPE. 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. Books that reference Reserve Bank Beck, Haig (Editor). 1985. UIA International Architect : Southern Africa (Issue 8). London: International Architect. pg 58 Fisher, RC, Le Roux, SW & Maré, E (Eds). 1998. Architecture of the Transvaal. Pretoria: UNISA. pg 128, 175-196, 128, 175-196, 214, 215, 216 Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 144