From Grain Silo to Shipping Container Student Housing

Inhabitat has just featured an unlikely new student housing project in Johannesburg: Mill Junction, a student complex that consists of two former grain silos topped with shipping containers. According to its developers, Citiq Property Developers, the energy and money-saving project re-directs money towards communal facilities, proving popular with students. As a result, Mill Junction, the second shipping-container housing project built by the Developers, may be the second of many more. More info at Inhabitat.
http://www.archdaily.com/478098/from-grain-silo-to-shipping-container-student-housing/

Mokena Makeka on public spaces for expression

Mokena Makeka talks about his work from the past five years, preferring to call himself an urban thinker, designer and philosopher rather than merely architect. He shares his thoughts on what the 21st century is about and how design should be responding. Makeka is fascinated by cities and shares his thoughts on the potential and limits of cities, and how South African cities are the result of socio-political settlement constructs

http://www.designindaba.com/video/mokena-makeka-public-spaces-expression