Estate Living Magazine Investment - Issue 34 October 2018 - Page 6

RECOGNISING INNOVATION
AND CREATIVITY
CMAI Architects of Knysna has won two International Federation of Landscape
Architects awards for the AAPME (Africa, Asia, Pacific, Middle East) area.
At the 2018 World Congress of the International Federation
of Landscape Architects (IFLA) in Singapore in July, CMAI
Architects won two awards – one for Thesen Islands in the
category Wildlife, Biodiversity, Habitat Enhancement or
Creation, and one for Crossways Farm Village in the category
Analysis and Master Planning.
Thesen Islands
Thesen Islands is CMAI Architects’s flagship and multiple award-
winning project in the Knysna Lagoon on the Garden Route
in the Western Cape. The development is, according to the
judge’s citation:
a great example of the restoration of a
brown field with historic ecological values. What
has happened in this project is the innovative
transformation of a sensitive site with respect to
social and environmental aspects. This project is
an example of how a development can be designed
and constructed to be commercially viable but also
co-exist with and enhance the environment. The
aesthetic content is as remarkable as the process.”
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