{"id":100,"date":"2015-03-25T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T09:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urba.co.za\/?p=100"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:53:40","slug":"gibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urba.co.za\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"gordon institute of business science"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS): Johannesburg South Africa 1996-2013<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>SAPAO AWARD 2009<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client:\u00a0<\/strong>Gordon Institute of Business Science<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Team:\u00a0<\/strong>Phase 1: Henri Comrie in association with TC Design Group Architects.\u00a0Phases 2 and 3: Henri Comrie as director of Comrie Wilkinson Architects and Urban Designers\u00a0(with Chris Wilkinson as the architect of record on Phase 2)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Photo credit: <\/strong>Leon Krige<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The campus was developed in three phases. What started out as a small group of buildings soon had the makings of a small town as the success of GIBS, driven by Prof Nick Binedell&#8217;s passion and vision, led to the demand for more space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">GIBS has been commended for the extent to which &#8216;life between classes&#8217; has been accommodated on campus through carefully designed courtyards, quads and seating alcoves that successfully blur the distinction between formal teaching and spontaneous interaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The campus as it stands today is a carefully knitted whole in which subsequent phases of development are varied while remaining focused on the central quad, which lies at the heart of the campus and provides a foundation for its architectural identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS): Johannesburg South Africa 1996-2013 SAPAO AWARD 2009 &nbsp; Client:\u00a0Gordon Institute of Business Science Team:\u00a0Phase 1: Henri Comrie in association with TC Design Group Architects.\u00a0Phases 2 and 3: Henri Comrie as director of Comrie Wilkinson Architects and Urban Designers\u00a0(with Chris Wilkinson as the architect of record on Phase 2) Photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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