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SD Issue 39 Digital

SD Issue 39 Digital

ZWL $450 ISSUE 39 | 2021

ZIMBABWE’S
LEADING
INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT
MAGAZINE

Sibaya Private Residential
Estate in Newlands

by Grand Homes on Page 12

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PUBLISHER THIRTY - NINTH ISSUE
Structure and Design Media
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MANAGING EDITOR SPACE OF THE MONTH
Clive Mapfumo 12 | Grand Homes New Home in Newlands

MARKETING MATERIAL FOCUS
Newton Musara 27 | Dulux Inspiring Colour Combinations
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ADMINISTRATOR CONSTRUCTION COUNCILS
Ashley Bangamu 33 | IAZ 2021 Registered Members List
38 | ZBCA 2021 Registered Members List
DESIGN EDITOR 41 | ZIE Engineers’ Covid-19 Perspective
Tamirirashe Zizhou
MAIN PROFILE
DESIGN AND LAYOUT 51 | Aspire Heights - A Community
Valentine Katsande Reaching New Heights

CONTRIBUTORS INTERIOR DESIGN (At The Racecourse)
Michael Nott 62 | The Showroom
66 | Pharaoh’s Trading
PHOTOGRAPHY 70 | TMC
Structure & Design
INDUSTRIAL PROFILE
TMC 78 | Lafarge’s New Dry Mortars Plant

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PUBLISHER’S MEMO

As the early mornings and late evenings get chilly we wish you a business centre for interior and design orientated people. There’s TMC
very big, warm welcome to our latest issue. Steel and Aluminium Structures’ new showroom and office where you can
Our cover feature this issue is Grand Homes’ new Sibaya Private see their unique range of products and get a quote for your new building
Estate in Newlands. It’s their third development, in conjunction with Troika or renovation project.
Design Workshop, and probably their best to date. We’ve covered their
previous development – Sitari Private Estate in Greendale. Sibaya offers First On the design front take a look at Laura Toft’s new venture, The Showroom,
World design and convenience adapted to our unique Zimbabwean lifestyle. just next door to TMC Steel and Aluminium Structures. The Showroom offers
We also look at the philosophy of Phillip Kudzayi (partner at Troika Design decorators and home owners the opportunity to browse through Laura’s
Workshop) concerning how we should approach new urban lifestyles and carefully curated Artisan range of samples of wall and floor coatings as well as
residential options. décor products from other selected suppliers. Laura will be available for colour
consultations, and workshops will be held periodically for training programmes
Aspindale Park’s new Aspire Heights development fits neatly into the idea in DIY décor schemes, Cemcrete products and furniture painting.
of upmarket, high-density housing that’s well thought out, appropriate and
affordable. It’s the latest phase of the enormous housing development along Still within the Borrowdale Race Course premises is the recently opened Old
Kambuzuma Road that promises to reshape the western suburbs. Stables Market. The market is buzzy and vibrant on Saturdays but a few of
the outlets are open during the rest of the week. Pharoah’s Trading is open
We’re also delighted to cover Lafarge Zimbabwe’s opening of their Dry Mortars Monday to Saturday where you’ll find a unique range of antique and cottage
plant which is set to change the local construction industry. The plant will furniture and décor accessories. Pharoah also repairs and renovates furniture
vastly increase their production capacity eliminating the need for imported and can custom make pieces to client’s specifications. So sit back, relax, keep
products and opening the avenue for exports to the region. The project also warm and enjoy our latest issue.
ties into the brand new 3D Printing Construction technology as it will be able
to produce the mortar needed for this exciting new building technique. The All Structure & Design content, and much more is available online on our
first 3D printer used for construction is expected later this year. website and ISSUU but follow us at SDMagzim

Borrowdale Race Course is rapidly becoming a new and interesting Structure&Design Teamwww.structureanddesignzim.com

issuu.com/structuredesign

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Grand Homes

Opens Their Third Private
Estate Complex – Sibaya
in Newlands

text by Michael Nott
photos by Structure and Design
project by Grand Homes | designed by Troika Design Workshop

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Delivering the Future of the Built Environment

OnaDsgn* TDW10920

we collaborate with our clients to Scan the code to see
create modern built environments current projects online
that are environmentally sustainable
and true to their surroundings

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Grand Homes has just completed complex is a swimming pool, a private gym All three Estates have outstanding security
their third Private Estate complex and a community club house. Sibaya is the with electric perimeter fences and a single
in Newlands – called Sibaya – latest feather in their cap and is made up access gate which is manned and guarded
along Walmer Drive. The first project was of 13 three storey, free standing, detached 24 hours a day, as well as backup electricity
Sibiti Private Estate in Greencroft which was townhouses each with four bedrooms and and water supplies. They all have fully fitted
completed in 2018 and consists of 26 three three bathrooms. Like Sitari the complex kitchens with stoves, ovens, microwaves,
bedroom, double storey, semi-detached has a swimming pool, private gym and a fridges and washing machines. The units
garden flats. The second project was Sitari clubhouse. SIbaya is positioned as a high end at Sibaya are available to rent unfurnished
Private Estate in Greendale which was townhouse development, offering a standard or partly furnished with lounge and dining
completed in 2020. Sitari consist of 48 three of living comparable to a freestanding home, room suites, beds, curtains, large screen
bedroom duplex apartments, semi-detached, but with the additional privilege of lock up TVs and all the essentials clients need
each with a small private garden. Within the and go convenience. apart from their personal linen and cutlery
and crockery. There’s also ZOL internet
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The concept is similar to modern, up-market,
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(Johannesburg) or in cities in the USA like
Miami. They’re ideal for young couples,
older people looking to downsize, diplomats
or corporate executives who are here in
Zimbabwe for limited assignments. The
excellent security and the community feel
makes for a perfect lock-up-and-go option.

All three projects were developed by Troika
Design Workshop alongside KS Trust. The
three projects bear some similar design
signatures. The exteriors are mostly low

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maintenance facebrick
with bright coloured
painted plaster details
to identify different
units, loads of doors and
windows for natural light,
balconies off the upper
floors, fairly steeply
sloping Chromadek roofs
and loads of exotic palm
trees in the communal
landscaped areas. Shared
paved access roads are
illuminated by solar
powered streetlamps.

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