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Southbank CompetitionSouthbank is an international competition for the design of a new environment that will encompass residential space, landscape elements and space for the production and exhibition of art from Africa, on a site near Stellenbosch in the Western Cape.
The competition is open to architects, artists and designers from around the world.
The sponsors of the competition are a leisure and wine company, Spier Holdings, who plan to use the forum of the competition, and the building of the winning community, to construct new models for the integration of spaces for living, working, learning, and creative expression.
The brief calls for the practice of social equity, environmental conservation and creative freedom on the site, in dialogue with the rich history and contemporary contribution of African heritage and culture.
Integrated into the competition brief is the design of the new Africa Centre.
The Africa Centre is both a physical entity and an ongoing process.
Meant to grow spatially and conceptually over a period of years, in time it will emerge as a multi-sited, multiple-usage space where the visual and performance cultures of Africa South and North, present and past are celebrated, studied and brought to life for diverse audiences in innovative ways.
In order to serve diverse communities of users, the Africa
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