CSIR CONVENTION CENTRE
Location: Pretoria [View Google Map]
Date: 1975
Practice:Junior Partner: Burgh Doherty Bryant and Partners (now BILD Architects)
Role: Design and Project Architect
Client: CSIR
Date: 1975
Practice:Junior Partner: Burgh Doherty Bryant and Partners (now BILD Architects)
Role: Design and Project Architect
Client: CSIR
Description
- 450-seat conference hall, with full facilities, as well as accommodation for real-time interpretation during conferences
- 50-seat conference hall, with full facilities, as well as accommodation for real-time interpretation during conferences
- 150-seat hall with full facilities
- 100-seat lecture hall
- Breakaway rooms
- Circulation and exhibition space
- VIP dining facilities
- Dining hall
- Reconstitution kitchen
- The main exhibition space contains timber paneling decorated with resin-process art works by South African graphic designer and artist, Ernst de Jongh.
- The building is constructed in concrete, cast in situ, with reflective glass from floor to ceiling, shielded from the sun by concrete sun screen elements.
