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ICON MAGAZINE - Vol 4: 2007

CONNECTING PEOPLE AND PROPERTY OF DISTINCTION

From the Ed's Head

There is something uncanny about returning to a city after 18 months and finding its skyline immeasurably changes. Come to Cape Town and the mountain is the city’s icon. In Paris, the Eiffel Tower still triumphs over the cirty while legislation, tradition and culture are keeping a tight clamp on development.

Fly to Dubai and because towers spring up every nine months, it reinvents itself and grows like desert crystals. The towers – ‘sky scraper’ seems a quaint, rather ’50 term to describe these steel and glass structures – are far from soulless. The soar up in shapes and forms that seem to have a life of their own. We all now of thousands of South Africans live and work there but perhaps few people know that a 36-year old South African architect with the global architectural company, Atkins, is behind many of the ambitions designs. Shaun Killa gave me two hours of his time in Dubai. How a Camps Bay High graduate came to make his marl on a city made for great listening.

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A house in the heart of 25 hectares of indigenous East London bush tucks itself discreetly away from the world, and yet is a mere 10 minutes from convenience

Words by Les Auphiais | Photograph by Ian Fairley

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Flying Solo

He sells soap because it’s a simple product. He writes, sings, designs, directs and produces. The prolific and terrific Nataniël breaks the rules of convention and has become one of South Africa’s most successful artists

Words by John Maytham | Photograph by Clinton Lubbe

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A New Look

A grand old Johannesburg home survives into the 21st century by reinventing its role

Words by Taryn Lamberti

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The Sound of Thunder
Thousands of years went by before Mosi-oa-Tunya became Victoria Falls and Livingstone spread the word to Europe. Capturing the colonial history of the time, Victoria Falls Hotel sits perfectly positioned with its feet in the spray and its head in a canopy of lush mango trees.

By Les Aupiais
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