studioMAS was established at the dawn of the new millennium in response to the architectural and planning opportunities offered in South Africa. Design excellence is at the core of the service we offer. Our team’s design skills are tempered with our determination to consistently and sincerely deliver a quality product within the financial and time restraints of the client’s brief with a strong regard for environmental issues.
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Each and every appointment is regarded as a singular opportunity to achieve design ingenuity – making problems into opportunities and opportunities into reality. We avoid irresponsible (aesthetic) novelty, focusing instead on creative design solutions, sometimes borrowing and adapting successful solutions from the past. In this way we strive to design places, spaces and environments that offer the end users quality life choices and add value to their lives.
We may be a small company, but as our projects prove, our ideas and ambitions are not. Whether we design a custom-made table in one of the houses we’ve designed or prepare an urban development framework for the inner-city, our work is guided by a complex, yet universal value system. This value system recognises that while buildings need to function according to a simple logic, they also need to offer added richness to their users … providing poetry for everyday life. But this is still not enough – we have to take the value system further, because we know that the projects we design do not exist in isolation – they form part of a much larger landscape. From urban to rural, cultural or natural landscapes, our work is more considered than egotistical. It aspires to materialise in brick and mortar excellence and quality, so that in years to come the places we have created hold as much value then, as they do now.
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Cartrack Head Office
We are currently on site with Cartrack’s new offices in Rosebank. The existing Cartrack buildings were demolished to make way for a new open plan, flexible and energy efficient building which is situated at the intersection of Tyrwhitt…
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Gauteng Central
The Gauteng Central precinct is a housing-focused mixed-use development located in Midrand, midway between Johannesburg and Pretoria. The precinct urban philosophy embodies transit-oriented design (TOD) principles with an emphasis…
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Affordable Housing In Sandton
The Sandton towers project is an affordable high-rise housing development, located in the financial hub of Sandton CBD. The site is well connected and accessible via multiple forms of transport due to its central location, with the Gautrain…
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Courtyards on Oxford 2
The proposal is for a mixed-used building consisting of office and residential space as an extension to the existing Courtyards on Oxford campus in Forest Town in Johannesburg. In response to the location and environment, a circular…
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Sandton Drive Link Bridge
The Sandton Drive Link Bridge will provide a pedestrian connection over Sandton Drive from the south to the north. This project seeks to provide a rational endpoint for the cycle route from Rosebank, and safe, comfortable access for pedestrians…
WAN Awards 2022 – Shortlist
The Ridge project in the Cape Town V&A Waterfront by StudioMAS has been shortlisted in two categories in the 2022 WAN (World Architecture News) Awards. The categories are Commercial Offices and studios, and Best overall sustainable architecture project. The winners will be announced on the 16 & 17 November.