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09/11/2026

Mbekweni Station: Improving Infrastructure, Empowering Communities 🚉

The renovation of Mbekweni Train Station in Paarl reflects the power of thoughtful design to enhance everyday experiences. By revitalising existing infrastructure, the project aims to improve aesthetics, functionality, and safety for both commuters and station staff.

Through considered spatial improvements and enhanced safety measures, Mbekweni Station is being transformed into a more welcoming, accessible, and dignified public transport facility, strengthening its role within the surrounding community.

Creating spaces that serve people better, today and into the future.

📍https://dscape.co.za/

06/11/2026

Quick tip for your home brief: think about how you want to move between inside and outside.

Swipe to see the same space from both sides. ➡️

Do you want the living area to open onto a covered deck? Somewhere to sit out in the evening? A garden you can see from the kitchen? These are some of the decisions we help you make in the early design stage, before the plans are drawn.

Residential architecture is one of the services we offer at Design Scape Architects, from the first conversation to the final drawings.

📞 Cape Town 021 422 5041 | Durban 031 566 1221
🌐 www.dscape.co.za

05/11/2026

🏢 Project spotlight: 3 Dorp Street, Cape Town

On the corner of Dorp and Long Street, we have completed the refurbishment and replanning of all nine floors of 3 Dorp Street for the Department of Environmental Affairs.

The building’s façade was redesigned using green building principles. New angled screens shade the windows from the sun, keeping the offices cooler and reducing the building’s energy consumption. At street level, a reworked ground floor makes the building easier to enter and better connected to its neighbours.

Inside, every floor was replanned with bright open-plan workspaces, meeting rooms and murals of Table Mountain, Lion’s Head and fynbos, a fitting nod to a client that looks after South Africa’s natural environment. 🌿

Refurbishing an existing building is one of the most sustainable choices you can make, and this project shows how much life a building can still have.

Planning a refurbishment, an office fit-out or a new home? Send us a message or visit our website to start the conversation.

📍https://dscape.co.za/

03/11/2026

Sustainable reuse to revitalise urban infrastructure 🚄🏫

The Kentemade Train Station showcases how innovative design can transform existing resources into meaningful spaces. By repurposing shipping containers, the project embraces adaptive reuse to reduce material consumption, minimise construction waste, and create a more sustainable approach to temporary architecture.

Their modular design allows for rapid assembly, flexibility, and future relocation or reuse, extending the lifecycle of the structures beyond the station's immediate needs. Combined with passive ventilation and thermal insulation, the result is a resource-efficient transit hub that revitalises an underutilised urban site while adapting to the evolving needs of commuters and the surrounding community.

Design Scape Architects - We're not just ‘your architects,’ we are your partners.

02/11/2026

Homes. Apartments. Conversions.

Residential architecture at Design Scape Architects covers more than one kind of project. Whether you’re building a new home, developing apartments or converting an existing space, our team works with you from the first brief to the finished drawings.

We work from our Cape Town and Durban offices.

📞 Cape Town 021 422 5041 | Durban 031 566 1221
✉️ [email protected]
🌐 www.dscape.co.za

30/10/2026

A retail space is not just a place to sell. It is a place to be experienced. 🛍️

Walk into a well-designed retail store, and you feel it before you consciously register it. The materials, the lighting, the spatial flow, the way product is displayed — all of it communicates something about the brand before a single word is spoken or a price tag is read.

Retail design is brand design. The two cannot be separated. A space that does not match the standard of the product it sells undermines everything the brand has worked to build.

At Design Scape Architects, we approach retail fit-outs with the same rigour we bring to any commercial brief — because the experience a customer has in that space is the brand’s most direct touchpoint with the people it is trying to reach.

📍 Pictured: Strellson, Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton.

📞 021 422 5041 | 031 566 1221
✉️ [email protected] | 🌐 www.dscape.co.za

28/10/2026

Some spaces are designed to be experienced, not just occupied. 🍷

The KWV W**e Emporium in Paarl required a new w**e emporium, coffee bar and conference facility within a building steeped in South African w**e heritage. Our response was rooted in the place itself — a combination of light and dark woods to symbolise KWV’s white and red w**es, paired with traditional terracotta and earth materials that reflect the historic character of the W**elands.

The result is a space that tells the story of where it is and what it is for — before a single bottle is opened.

At Design Scape Architects, this is what we mean by context-led design. The space should belong to its place.

📞 021 422 5041 | 031 566 1221
✉️ [email protected] | 🌐 www.dscape.co.za

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27/10/2026

🏗️ The Bower | Granger Bay Waterfront

A new chapter is taking shape along Cape Town's iconic waterfront. The Bower continues to progress steadily, bringing together thoughtful architecture, contemporary design, and a vision for connected coastal living.

As construction advances, this landmark development is beginning to reveal the spaces that will define its future presence within the Granger Bay precinct. Every milestone marks another step towards creating a refined residential environment that complements its exceptional setting.

Design Scape Architects
Shaping spaces. Elevating possibilities.

26/10/2026

The way people want to live and work is changing. 🏙️

The Harry is a mixed-use development in Cape Town that brings together 49 apartments, a restaurant, co-working space, shared meeting rooms and shared living areas under one roof. It is designed around the idea that where you live and where you work do not need to be separate — and that the spaces in between, the shared ones, are what make a building feel like a community rather than just an address.

At Design Scape Architects, mixed-use projects challenge us to think about how people move through their day — and how a building can make that easier, richer and more connected.

📍 Pictured: The Harry, Cape Town.

📞 021 422 5041 | 031 566 1221
✉️ [email protected] | 🌐 www.dscape.co.za

23/10/2026

From working across offices, retail, mixed-use and institutional projects, here is what we consistently see. 🏢

1️⃣ Clients who involve us before the site is purchased get better outcomes — because the right design input at the right time prevents the wrong decisions from being locked in.

2️⃣ Buildings designed around how the organisation actually operates — not just how the floor plan looks — perform better and cost less to run over time.

3️⃣ The procurement process matters as much as the design. The right contractor, on the right contract, makes the difference between a smooth build and a costly one.

📞 021 422 5041 | 031 566 1221
✉️ [email protected] | 🌐 www.dscape.co.za

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Monday	08:30 - 16:30
Tuesday	08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 16:30
Thursday	08:00 - 16:30
Friday	08:30 - 16:30

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http://www.dscape.co.za/

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