Local Studio is an architecture and urbanism practice with roots in Johannesburg and a unique perspective on the developing world.

Wits Gateways

Client: University of the Witwatersrand
Construction Budget: USD1,074,498
Address: Braamfontein
City: Johannesburg
Categories: Architecture, Public Space, Urban design, Urban management planning
Project Type: Education, Landscape
Completion Year: 2018-2019

Braamfontein Gate

Client: Urban Task Force
Construction Budget: USD12,400,000
Area: 35,000m²
Address: 209 Smit Str. Braamfontein, 2001
City: Johannesburg
Categories: Architecture
Project Type: Commercial, Housing
Completion Year: 2018-2019

Braamfontein Gate is the conversion of the formed high-rise headquarters of the Total Oil Company into affordable rental housing. The development consists of 400 residential units, a rooftop event space, retail units, a coffee shop, a business centre, a gym, an action court and a swimming pool. The project is illustrative of the quote by […]

Outreach Foundation

Client: Outreach Foundation NGO
Construction Budget: USD206,550
Area: 300m²
Address: 16 Kapteijn Str. Hillbrow 2038
City: Johannesburg
Categories: Architecture, Interior design, Public Space
Project Type: Cultural, Education
Completion Year: 2014-2015

The Lutheran Church Outreach Foundation Community Centre is one of the first new social infrastructure projects to be built in Hillbrow since the 1970s. The project is situated within the broader Hillbrow Lutheran Church/Friedenskirche precinct, a site given to the Lutheran church by Paul Kruger at the turn of the century. The actual building site […]

Westbury Bridge

Client: Johannesburg Development Agency
Construction Budget: USD991,450
Area: 4500m²
Address: Cnr. Fuel Rd & Kretzchmar Str. Westbury 2093
City: Johannesburg
Categories: Architecture, Public Space, Urban design
Project Type: Landscape
Completion Year: 2014-2015

Westbury Pedestrian Bridge comprises a pedestrian bridge with access to a BRT station, an amphitheater and a park. This project forms part of a broader precinct plan, an NMT network, also conducted by Local Studio in the area. Initial research established that the on-grade crossing between Coronationville and Westbury was extremely dangerous for pedestrians, particularly […]

99 Juta

Client: Adne CC
Construction Budget: USD 249,179
Address: 99 Juta Street, Braamfontein
City: Johannesburg
Categories: Architecture, Interior design
Project Type: Commercial, Cultural
Completion Year: 2018-2019

99 Juta is Local Studio’s most recently completed project, and involves the creation of custom studio and exhibition spaces for some of Johannesburg’s foremost product designers, most notably the firm Dokter and Misses. Apart from studios, the project also included the creation of a restaurant and bar at ground floor and a flexible event space […]

Arch For The Arch

Client: Interactive Africa and Liberty
Construction Budget: Undisclosed
Address: Cape Town City Centre
City: Cape Town
Categories: Architecture, Public Space
Project Type: Cultural, Landscape
Completion Year: 2016-2017

The Arch for Arch stands as a tribute to the human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, affectionately known as “Arch” by fellow South Africans, as well as a monument to peace and democracy. Designed by Snøhetta and Johannesburg-based Local Studio, in collaboration with Design Indaba, the engineers at Hatch, and […]