Museums and Buildings (Category) - 137 posts

A look at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Joburg's Maboneng Precinct -- built in 1899 and recently reopened as a gallery/retail space -- pre- and post-renovation.

My second visit to Lindfield House, the most interesting Victorian Museum/afternoon tea house in Joburg (and probably in the world).

A quick post about the iThemba Tower, an art installation made of 7000 recycled plastic bottles at the Spaza Gallery in Troyeville, Johannesburg.

I spontaneously visited the Imbali Building, a 15-storey apartment building nicknamed "Mini Ponte", in Joburg's Berea neighborhood.

Joburg has one of the prettiest skylines in the world. Here are my 10 favorite photos of the Joburg skyline, taken over the last several years.

On a tour with Dlala Nje, I visited some high-rise rooftops in Berea. Joburg's rooftops provide a different perspective on the city.

I visited the L. Ron Hubbard House in Johannesburg, where Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard lived in the 1960s, as part of #TheGodProject.

In February 2012 I went on a tour of Art Deco architecture in the East Rand, organized by the Joburg Photowalkers. I have fond memories of that tour – I …

This weekend I went to the Turbine Art Fair, at the historic Turbine Hall in downtown Joburg. This is the Turbine Art Fair’s third year, but I was out of …

At this time last year I put my first-ever limited-edition print, “Hazy Blue Hour”, up for sale on my blog. The sale went remarkably well – I …

A few weeks after I moved to South Africa five years ago, I walked into an antique shop and fell into a conversation with the owner about interesting places to …

Last weekend I was invited for a sunrise photoshoot at the top of the Carlton Centre, the tallest building in Africa, as part of a social media campaign for …