Matthew Gray ARCHITECTS & URBAN DESIGNERS
email: info@matthewgray.co.za phone: +27 (0)21 782 0074
Matthew Gray ARCHITECTS & URBAN DESIGNERS
email: info@matthewgray.co.za phone: +27 (0)21 782 0074
•Concept urban design for housing scheme, Noordhoek
•Concept design for three beach cottages, Pringle Bay.
•Concept through to council submission drawings for sectional title flat of 60 units modeled in 3D on computer, Simon's Town.
•Concept through to sketch design for 18 unit block of sectional title flats modeled in 3D on computer, Kenilworth.
•Concept through to final sketch design for a complex of 90 flats and with 2000m2 of retail, modeled as a full photo-realistic 3D computer model, Kraaifontein.
•Concept through to sketch design modeled as a full photo-realistic 3D computer model for six luxury apartments, Green Point.
•Concept through to sketch design, modeled as a full photo-realistic 3D computer model, ten luxury "loft" apartments, Hermanus.
•Concept design for the redevelopment of an office block with the addition of seven luxury "loft" apartments, Cape Town CBD.
•Concept through to sketch design, for frail care centre, Bergvliet.
•Concept through to construction, alterations to luxury house, Oranjezicht.
•Concept through to sketch design, modeled as a full photo-realistic 3D computer model for luxury office development, Century City.
•Concept through to construction drawings of Zeekoevlei Multi Purpose Environmental centre.
•Concept through to construction drawings for pool room studio, Rondebosch.
•Concept design for luxury house, Simon's Town.
•Concept design for car showroom in Century City.
•Concept design for private home in Hout Bay for someone in the film industry that required a private menagerie.
•Robin Island competition entry.
•Concept design to construction of private home in Newlands.
•Concept design for warehouse conversion, Claremont.
•Concept design for large office refurbishment, Parrow.
•Concept design development and computer modeling of the “Pinmore” building at the V&A Waterfront for Revel Fox and Partners.
•Concept design to construction drawings for the renovation and conversion of an historic Eastern Cape farm house.
•Concept through to construction of a house in Simon’s Town for a United Nations peace keeper stationed in Madagascar at the time.
•Concept design through to working drawings for house in Simon’s Town.
•Concept design for house refurbishment in Rosebank.
•The accurate measuring and computer modeling of a large clothing factory for as built municipal drawings and future planing purposes.
•Concept design for large estate manor house, Noordhoek.
•Factory entrance street facade detail design observatory.
•Concept design for renovations of house in Newlands including the addition of a large art studio etc.
•The design of eight housed on adjacent plots in Clovelly (three built at this point).
•Concept design to council submission of house in Gordons Bay.
•Concept design to council submission of large extension and refurbishment of house in Hout Bay.
•Concept design through to design development of large house with central pool in Hout Bay.
•Concept design for large house with pool on very tricky steep site in Simon’s Town.
In conjunction with Dennis Moss Partnership:
•Concept urban design for Walvis Bay.
•Concept urban design study for 300 houses and hotel development, Stellenbosh.
In conjunction with Arctotis:
•Urban design of street for informal markets, Philippi.
In addition to the above we have also modeled in full 3D "photo-realistic virtual reality" the buildings of other architectural practices, notably:
•A proposal for sectional title apartments on Clovelly station, Clovelly
•The finalist entry for competition for "the New Legislature Building for the Province of the Northern Cape" done for Elliott Michaels Architects.
•Concept design to council submission of house on steep and narrow site in Simon’s Town.
•Concept design to design development of a proposed pedestrian railway crossing bridge with photomontage for visual impact assessment.
•Concept design to council submission of house on steep site in Glencairn.
•Concept design to design development of large house in Clovelly.
•Concept design to design development of village of houses on golfing estate in Natal for Gap Architects.
•Concept design to design development of 6500m2 local area shopping centre, East London.
•Concept design to design development of 23 900m2 regional shopping centre, East London.
•Concept design of a medi clinic, East London.
•Concept design and production of promotional DVD for the urban design “greening of the city” project at Khalifa City, United Arab Emirates.
•Concept design to council submission of house on narrow site in admiral’s kloof, Simon’s Town.
•Concept design to design development of 8400m2 shopping centre, Hartenbos, Mossel Bay.
•Urban design for a section of high density housing and sectional development in Hartenbos, Mossel Bay.
•Concept design to construction drawings for shopping centre conservatory roof.
•Concept design to council submission drawings for new classrooms for Noordhoek training centre. (charity work done “pro bono”)
•Visual and sunlight impact study for central city office block.
•Concept design for factory office refurbishment.
•Concept design to construction drawings for home on water’s wedge, Zeekoevlei
•Concept design to council submission drawings for house on wide site in admiral’s kloof, Simon’s Town.
•Concept design of two large homes on an estate in Constantia.
•Concept to completion of luxury 1400m2 holiday home in private game reserve in the Klein Karoo.
•Concept to completion of luxury holiday home for local client at Misty Cliffs on waters edge.
•Concept to completion of luxury holiday home for foreign client in Misty Cliffs on steep hillside.
•Concept to council drawings of 1200m2 cape manor house (project not built).
•Concept design on luxury home in Camps Bay with both indoor and out door pools, private theatre et cetera. (project aborted)
•The urban design for 230 hectare new town on N1 including mixed use residential, light industrial, heavy industrial, office retail components. (Project still confidential as not yet formally announced.)
•The urban design for 130 hectare section of new town on N7 including mixed use residential, light industrial, office retail et cetera. (Project still confidential as not yet formally announced.)
•The urban design for a ± one billion Rand redevelopment of a portion of Cape Town as a main urban node with sports, hotel, commercial and retail components. (Project still confidential as not yet formally announced.)
List of past projects