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		Public Library Hout Bay, Western Cape Roelof Sarel UYTENBOGAARDT: Design Architect UYTENBOGAARDT and ROZENDAL: Architect

Date: 1987-1989 Type: Library Status: Extant 1991 SAIA Award of Merit Street: Cor Melkhout Crescent and Sentinel Street   Click to view large map Coordinates: Alt: 6m

See more photographs The first public library in Hout Bay was started by Mrs Margaret Thomas in a building which she had purchased in Andrews Rd. After her death, this building which she had left to the community housed the Thomas Library from 1964 to 1989. The library was overflowing by the 1980s, and it was apparent that a much larger site was needed to meet the long-term demands of a rapidly developing Hout Bay. The new and current library in Melkhout Crescent was formally opened on 7 August 1989. The architects were UYTENBOGAARDT and ROZENDAL. Its size is 655 m² and it cost more than R1 million. (Extracted from the Cape Librarian, July-August 2024, pp 28-29.) References: Wegelin, Hans. 1994. Die rubriek waarin argitekte se tegniese vakgeheime geopenbaar word : argiknep. Architecture SA Vol 10, Issue 12, Nov-Dec Muwanga, Christina. 1998. South Africa : a guide to recent architecture. London : Köln: Ellipsis : Könemann. pg 56-57 Papanicolaou, Stella, Lahabe, Valerie & Rawoot, Maashitoh . 2021. Modern Architectures : Cape Town. Cape Town: MAGS. pg 36