Architect & Urban Designer Pr Arch MIArch CiFA UDISA Commonwealth Scholar

Henri enjoys working through complex problems to arrive at simple and logical solutions that hold wide appeal. This skill has been demonstrated in a series of awarded and internationally published projects that range from modest individual houses to city precincts.

He was listed in Taschen’s 40 architects under 40 and Wallpaper Magazine’s design directory, both representing reputable and independently vetted international shortlists of recognisable design talent. Key amongst his more recent achievements is his design for an educational building at Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley winning first prize in the category Buildings for Higher Education at the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon in 2022.

What others say:

‘Comrie again shows that he is engaged with design in all its dimensions and scales, in searching for the essential’. – Cape Institute of Architects Award of Merit Citation, 2014/ House at Johannesdal.

‘I thought I would drop you a quick note that my first week back at work was made when a student came up to me and talked about the fact that the reason she chose GIBS as the MBA was the fantastic vista of the courtyard and all the buildings. She realized, as she said to me then, that she didn‘t have an alternative but to come to GIBS! That is all due to your extraordinary design work and I just wanted to drop you a note and send you my best wishes.‘ – Prof Nick Binedell. Dean Gordon Institute of Business Science via email, January 2014.

‘Henri has a unique ability to strategise, utilise and present creative solutions in the urban design process in the built environment‘. – Bev Mitchell, Chairman at Mitchell DuPlessis Associates, Cape Town. Posted on LinkedIn 2014.

‘In my view Henri has all the attributes of a mature urban design practitioner informed by his habitual engagement with and promotion of research and the study of international urban design. I find his abilities in urban design to be matched by (and widely recognised) by the highest level of resolution in his architectural work’.- Prof Richard Hayward (Oxford, 2016)