The City of Johannesburg through its implementing agent, The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), has identified the VILAKAZI STREET PRECINCT (VSP) as a potentially important cultural, heritage and economic node. As such the short-term objective for the project is to stabilise, consolidate and improve the heritage assets in the Orlando area while the long-term objective aims [...]

The Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system is due to start service at the end of August 2009. This public transport system is the first of its kind in South Africa, and Johannesburg has been chosen to spearhead the national project. As per the vision and policy of the City of Johannesburg, the first [...]

The City of Johannesburg, through its implementing agent the Johannesburg Development Agency, is upgrading the public environment in Hillbrow, Berea and Yeoville as part of meeting its commitments contained in the multi-sectoral Inner City Regeneration Charter. The HBY public environment upgrade covers approximately 200 city blocks and has been carried out in accordance [...]

The Fire Walker is a sculptural collaboration between artists William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx, situated on the southern foot of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge. The sculpture when viewed from a particular angle presents the silhouetted image of a woman carrying a burning brazier on her head. This image is typical to the street culture of [...]

The Joint Venture of The Trinity Session and 26’10 South Architects, in partnership with Feizel Mamdoo, has been appointed as Public Art Commissioning Agents for the Pageview, Vrededorp and Fordsburg Public Art Project (PVF Public Art) as part of the Pageview Vrededorp and Fordsburg urban upgrade by the Johannesburg Development Agency and the City of [...]

Artwork by Gordon Froud (detail)
Recent procurement of artworks for the dynamic Bara Taxi Rank in Soweto saw Marco Cianfanelli, Paul Cooper, Gordon Froud and Claire Regnard each develop a site-specific sculpture to complement the robust and fluid design of this taxi rank.

The public artworks programme for Hillbrow, Berea and Yeoville (Phase 1), was conceived within the broader urban upgrade of these neighbourhoods. The implementation process attempted to design artworks into the fabric of the landscape in an embedded manner, wherever possible, using workshop methods to produce integrated artworks. The resultant programme thus realised artworks as part [...]

The City of Johannesburg, through its implementing agent the Johannesburg Development Agency, is upgrading the public environment in Hillbrow, Berea and Yeoville as part of meeting its commitments contained in the multi-sectoral Inner City Regeneration Charter. The latter is a strategic document outlining how the City will address issues of urban regeneration and economic development [...]

As per the Johannesburg Development Agency commission to extend the Juta Street Trees public sculpture programme, the trinity session and designer Claire Regnard have complimented the original 9 trees, in 2006, with a further 16 integrated into Juta Street, east and west of the Nelson Mendela Bridge.
Details of the new trees:
htttp://www.onair.co.za/pdf/juta2.pdf
Documentation of the commission for [...]

The Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality Clr Amos Masondo cordially invites you to the unveiling of the Eland in Braamfontein

Date: Thursday 18th October 2007
Time: 18h00 for 18h30
Venue: Corner Bertha and Ameshoff Street Braamfontein
Dress: Smart Casual / Traditional
RSVP: by 15 October 2007
Tel: [...]