#Architecture - 104 posts

Toasted is a coffee shop/toasted sandwich cafe, hidden in the courtyard of an office building on Jan Smuts Avenue in Parkwood.

NOTE: I originally wrote this post before January 6th, when pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol and mounted the biggest threat to American …

I visited the Voortrekker Monument on 16 December, the Day of Reconciliation, a public holiday that used to be called the Day of the Vow.

I spent a Friday walking around downtown Joburg, taking photos with Gerald Garner. It was one of my favorite days this year.

Hallmark House, a hip hotel in downtown Joburg, has the city's hottest Sunday rooftop party and also the one of the city's best views.

The Joburg Heritage Foundation recently hosted a tour of the "Ruins of Rose Road" in Upper Houghton. The tour was everything I hope for and more.

The Carlton Hotel was once the glitziest hotel in Joburg. It's now been closed for two decades. Recently I managed to sneak a few pictures in the lobby.

I recently ran 54 floors from the bottom to the top of Ponte City, the tallest residential building in Africa (at the time I wrote this post in April 2019).

Downtown Joburg has so many beautiful places that Joburgers either: a) don't know about; or b) are afraid to visit. Here are my top 5.

Transwerke, an old maternity hospital near Constitution Hill in Hillbrow, has recently become a collection of artists' studios.

Somerset House, a historic building on Gandhi Square, has become the headquarters for JoburgPlaces. There are big plans in the works for this 1906 building.

The oldest surviviing house in Johannesburg, built by Voortrekker Barend Viljoen in 1852 and later owned by the Bezuidenhout, is hidden in Bez Valley Park.