habitat

july/august 2008 Timber furniture is a different matter and a measure of maintenance is necessary; although greyish, unsealed, weathered hardwoods like solid teak have a certain appeal. Woodline’s Oscar de Weijer maintains: ‘Total weather resistance is definitely something to strive for. We’ve moved from the traditional solid timber range into timber and metal blends, followed by aluminium and ...

architect & builder

may/june 2002 Whilst finishing the new Woodline building on North Rand Road, on Johannesburg’s East Rand, the contractor was constantly asked by passersby when the new gym would be opening! The slick, late-modernist aesthetic of this industrial building, has an expressive double volume glazed showroom opening up to the road frontage. Its bold use of industrial materials, such as zincalume cladding, large glazed spans and cantilevered metal sheeting roof, cleanly articulated to create a neat modern machined aesthetic which owes more to the clients wish for a new production headquarters of international standing for their export business, than to any desire to mimic the current shopfront gym aesthetic.