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PROJECT

THE HOUGHTON HOTEL

The Houghton Hotel in
Johannesburg was com-
pleted in 2018 as the next
phase of a long-term de-
velopment adjacent to the
Houghton Golf Course. It
follows the completion of
the Houghton apartments,
right next to the hotel, the
landscaping of which was
featured in the June 2016
issue of Landscape SA.

andscape architect Andrew Kerrin,
representing the team from
LGREENinc, says that the brief focused
on the relationship with the adjacent
golf course. “In some ways it was about
connecting views across the course, whilst
in others it was about looking inwards and
creating private, sunken spaces. Many of
the outdoor spaces also assist in breaking
down the verticality of the building using
terracing and vegetation, so that each
space has a human scale,” he explains.

The main entrance water feature establishes “the language of water”,
the central theme of the project

4 Landscape SA • Issue 91 2019