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Date: 2008 Client: Eulalie Spamer Type: Homestead Style: Contemporary Status: Extant 2008 SAIA Award of Merit Street: 16 Higgo Rd   Click to view large map Coordinates: 33°56'28.81" S 18°23'51.77" E Alt: 203m

Award of Merit Citation Weavers Nest is a misnomer, this is more like two finely crafted Paradise Flycatchers nests - nestling in the trees and exemplifying an environmental awareness through its very structure. The house engages a difficult site with dauntingly steep topography and water coursing through, but these challenges allow for a house with its bi-nuclear planning of accommodation as two inter-linked pavilions to be placed on platforms, each perched on two cross walls, so touching the earth lightly, yet engaging views through tree-top foliage as a faience. Light and lightness seem to be the signature themes, richly deserving of an Award of Merit. See Article in hoolie-hah by Lorelle Bell 2011 10 20 with more photographs. References: Joubert, 'Ora (Ed). 2009. 10 years + 100 buildings : Architecture in a Democratic South Africa. Cape Town: Bell-Roberts Publishing. pg 304-306 South African Institute of Architects. 2008. Awards : South African Institute of Architects. Awards for Excellence, Awards of Merit, Regional Awards for Architecture 2005/2006 2007/2008. Cape Town: Picasso for SAIA. pg 56-57