by 2summers | Jan 25, 2023 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings
It’s been two months since Thorsten and I joined a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation tour of three crazy houses on New Mountain Road in Linksfield Ridge. I have very limited time to write this post (I’m getting on a plane to Namibia tomorrow — more on...
by 2summers | Jan 11, 2023 | Arts and Culture, USA
Thorsten and I just returned to Joburg after a long trip to the U.S. — I was there for a month and Thorsten joined me for three weeks. We had a fun, emotional, hilarious, exciting, and utterly exhausting time. The tired but happy Blogitects (one architect, one...
by 2summers | Dec 1, 2022 | Hidden Joburg, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Museums and Buildings
My quest to visit all of the places featured in the Hidden Johannesburg book continues. With my recent trip to the Freemasons’ Hall, which I’m about to tell you about, I have now visited 20 of the 28 places in the book. This will be my final Hidden Joburg...
by 2summers | Nov 17, 2022 | Hidden Joburg, Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Museums and Buildings, Religion
For the newest installment in my Hidden Joburg series, I visited a church in Hillbrow that I’ve been curious about for years. The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen is around the corner from the Hillbrow Boxing Club, and I have driven,...
by 2summers | Nov 10, 2022 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Markets/Shopping
I recently joined the Rand Club, which holds a couple of black-tie events each year. When it came time to attend our first fancy function, the Club’s 135th-anniversary gala, Thorsten and I considered his black-tie options. He didn’t own a tux, we...