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Date: 2008 Client: Blue Plumb Developments (Pty) Ltd Type: Row Houses Style: Contemporary Status: Extant 2008 SAIA Award of Merit   Click to view map Coordinates: 29°52'15.45" S 31°02'49.36" E Alt: 7m

Award of Merit Citation This long-neglected unique row of Victorian houses has been refurbished with a vision of history as a continuous, changeful process. While viability involved the integration of parking basement, and the removal and re-instatement of the outbuildings; the ensemble was given new life in a way which celebrates the past while re-allocating and reconfiguring cellular spaces to accommodate the demands of contemporary comfort and living. There is restraint exercised in the regeneration of this heritage streetscape of row-houses. Through careful detailing and choice of material and fittings memories of the past are invoked and its footprints read in what is now homes for the well-heeled. The project is merit-worthy in its recycling of existing fabric as a sustainable resource. Books and articles that reference Dock Point - Restoration of Row Houses 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 34-35