SA-born Architect the Face of Green Building Design

Tue, 23 Jun 2009
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SA-born Architect the Face of Green Building Design
South African architect Shaun Killa (a UCT graduate) is now based in Dubai. His recent successes include the Yinchuan Hedong Airport (China), the Durrat Al Bahrain Resort (Bahrain) and the World Trade Center Memorial and Visitors Center, New York (USA).

And now, this innovative ‘local boy made good’, who is currently head designer of Atkins Middle East, is receiving acclaim for his work in designing sustainable, energy saving buildings – most notably the world’s first wind-powered building – The Bahrain World Trade Centre.

 
 
This beautiful, ultra-modern, space age building comprises a 240m high twin tower complex and three 275kw turbines that produce a total of 700kw. The turbines use wind power to reduce energy consumption.
 
 
 
Killa himself says the building is “…almost out of a science fiction movie”, and added that he would be very keen to work with a developer in South Africa to create a ‘significant’ (green) building here, if one such developer would rise to the challenge.
 
 
The full story can be read in last weekend’s edition of the Sunday Times (June 21, 2009).
 
 
 
(Image of Trade Centre: Gabby Canonizado. Creative Commons License)
 
 
 
 
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sambo zamokuhle (6 years ago)

i like this man so much, he is actually my inspiration

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Richard Jamieson (5 years ago)

Very inspiring indeed. Would love to see a similar building going up in Cape Town, Joburg or Durban.

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Vivienne Ashcroft (4 years ago)

As an Architect I would really love to know how he was able to make it this big in Architecture. He''s obviously a talented individual but there is a certain amount of good fortune involved in getting the correct exposure. By Dawid - Member of BvR Architects (5 years ago) I am the PR for Camps Bay High School and would love to make contact with Shaun - could I please have his email address. I am wanting to put his resume and photograph up on the Achievers'' Wall at his old school CBHS.