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 DESIGN AND LAYOUT 31 | Cyrex Branding
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 E’VE got a great selection of articles to grab your attention in our They also supply banners and flags and corporate gifts and merchandising.
 current issue – from exciting fresh suppliers of building and design A. M. Machado were the main contractors for the renovations and
 materials to recently completed structures and decor projects. Our interior fit out of the new Buffalo Creek Spur in Borrowdale. Previous Spur
cover article this issue features the new branch of Tile and Carpet Centre restaurants in Zimbabwe had closed a few ago until local food giant Simbisa
and their sister company Ceiling Aluminium and Partitioning Solutions re-launched the Spur franchise. Borrowdale is the first branch with more
which has just opened in Avondale. TACC and CAAPS have long been the Spur restaurants set to open across Zimbabwe.
preferred suppliers of tiles, sanitary ware, building materials and aluminium
and glass for the construction industry, interior designers and enthusiastic In line with an on-going urban renewal programme taking place – slowly
home DIYers. The new outlet is their 21st branch in Zimbabwe and offers – in Harare’s CBD, Gladorn Contractors have completed the smart new
more convenience for shoppers from the northern and western suburbs. Samalex shop and office mall complex on the corner of 7th Street and
 Kwame Nkrumah Avenue. As relative new comers to the construction
The Gain Cash and Carry Group have opened a brand new hardware outlet in of larger commercial projects the success of Samalex Mall will no doubt
Graniteside just opposite Waverley Blankets along Boshoff Drive. It’s a one-stop see them embarking on a number of bigger projects in the near future.
shop where you can get everything you need for construction, interior décor and Architectural and Planning Studio have designed a new classroom block
the garden. They’re open 7 days a week and their prices are very competitive. for St Michael’s Presentation Primary School in Borrowdale. Over the years
We’ve also covered Absolute Coatings and the A-Team who supply top the school had added classrooms and other buildings in a fairly haphazard
quality paints and accessories and offer a fantastic painting service for both manner, adding new buildings as the need arose. APS came up with a
interior and exterior use. Interior designers and building contractors love master plan for the school whereby the new classrooms help to create a
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CELEBRATING
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 THEIR 21ST OUTLET
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 Text: Michael Nott | Photos: Structure and Design

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T
 ile and Carpet Centre (TACC) and their sister companies Ceiling
 Aluminium and Partitioning Solutions (CAAPS) and Plumbing
 Wholesalers and Suppliers have recently opened their 21st
outlet in Zimbabwe conveniently situated at 100B King George Road in
Avondale. It’s across the road from Avondale Primary School and just next
door to Casa Mia restaurant. The 21st branch is a significant milestone
proving that the company has really grown up and come of age.

It also makes it so much easier for shoppers from the northern and
western suburbs of Harare to view their fantastic range of tiles and
carpets, plumbing and sanitary ware, and their range of aluminium and
glass fittings and fixtures. The TACC group of companies are now truly
a one-stop destination for both contractors and home DIY enthusiasts
whether for new construction projects or renovations.

TACC and CAAPS currently have five branches across Harare, with their
flagship branch located at 189 Samora Machel Avenue in Eastlea, their
head office at 56 McChlery Avenue also in Eastlea and other branches – assistance and suggestions for the best finishes, the best ‘look’, and
further along Samora Machel Avenue and in Graniteside. They also the best budget.
have other outlets in Bulawayo, Mutare, Masvingo, Kwekwe, Kadoma
and Gweru and even in smaller towns like Zvishavane, Bindura, Chinoyi, TACC is a proudly Zimbabwean company established in 1999 so they
Victoria Falls, Chiredzi, Gwanda and Rusape. There’s really nowhere have over 20 years of expertise serving and supplying the local market.
across Zimbabwe where you can’t find a branch near you. TACC prides themselves on supplying only the finest quality and most
 up to date range of porcelain and ceramic tiles from Brazil, Italy, Spain
Apart from supplying the best quality tiles, carpets, aluminium and glass and China and other suppliers around the world. They also supply both
products, and plumbing and sanitary ware they also offer an exclusive laminate and vinyl flooring as well as a huge range of carpeting for
design advisory service recommending the best products for your project residential and commercial applications, including fitted carpets, loose
– whether it’s a major housing development, a commercial office block or carpets and rugs. They also supply all the necessary accessories like tile
a simple home renovation. There are even plans in the pipeline for their adhesives, grouting and even tile cutters to ensure that you get the best
new Design Centre in Eastlea which will offer customers a unique service end result for your investment.

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Apart from superior floor finishes TACC also
supply wall tiles and their unique range of
wall cladding for both interior and exterior
applications. Their range of stone tile wall
cladding is fashionable and right up to date with
current international décor trends. Their range
of wood look ceramic tiles offers the timeless
appeal of timber with the durability and ease of
maintenance offered by tiles.

If you’re renovating your bathroom or kitchen
TACC can supply all your tiling needs as well
as all your plumbing requirements and even
aluminium and glass shower doors, partitions,
windows and even glass and aluminium
skylights. Aluminium and glass doors are right
on trend now for opening up your interiors to
the outdoor space, but architects and interior
designers are increasingly using glass and
aluminium doors to define internal spaces
– especially now that open plan design is
so popular. You can open your lounge to the
kitchen/dining space or separate it when needed.
Great for controlling both temperature and noise
and adding privacy when required. Aluminium
and glass partitions can be made to order in a
range of colours and finishes to satisfy the most
discerning designers whether for homes, shop
fronts and partitions or office complexes. In
fact, TACC often work in close conjunction with
architects, engineers, interior designers and
decorators and home DIY enthusiasts. If your
new venture seems a little daunting TACC can
recommend teams of approved artisans and
shopfitters to complete your project.

The new Avondale branch features a custom
designed showroom and warehouse with easy
access away from the congested city centre,
safe and secure parking, and seven day a week
shopping convenience. For your one stop shop
for tiling, plumbing and accessories shopping
TACC is the place to visit.

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CONTACT DETAILS:

Call centre and WhatsApp numbers for enquiries:
0716 348 955/0716 348 911
Or drop into their new showroom at:
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A FIRST FOR ZIMBABWE
The next generation Plascon Double Velvet Pure drastically
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Plascon has taken things one step further by adding pioneering formaldehyde
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WHAT IS FORMALDEHYDE?
Formaldehyde is a Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) that is used as a binding agent
in many composite building materials like chipboard, textiles and furniture, as well
as several other household products such as cosmetics, detergents and pesticides.
These items are most commonly found in home and office settings where people
spend 90% of their time. Formaldehyde is released into the air from these household
sources and, although it is not the only culprit, it is one of the major contributors to
making indoor air five times more polluted than the air outside.

HOW DOES IT WORK?
The formaldehyde abatement technology present in Plascon Double Velvet Pure
absorbs formaldehyde particles emitted from fabrics, woods, building materials and
furniture in the surrounding environment and by reacting with specific compounds
present in the paint, irreversibly converts the formaldehyde compound into harmless
water vapour that is safe for breathing.

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Plascon Double Velvet Pure’s unique Stain BarrierTM forms a multilayered inhibits mould and bacterial growth.
protective coating that prevents dirt from penetrating the coating. The reinvented Plascon Double Velvet Pure is the obvious choice
The BreatheasyTM Technology contains zero VOCs, allowing the product for anyone who wants to put the wellness of their loved ones
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A TASTE
FOR LIFE

BUFFALO CREEK SPUR
SAM LEVY, BORROWDALE
The visuals are for descriptive purposes and meals served could vary.

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Buffalo Creek Spur
 Opens In Borrowdale
 text: Michael Nott | photos: Structure and Design

S
 TEAK LOVERS - and others - are in for a treat as the
 new Buffalo Creek Spur in Borrowdale (at Sam Levy’s
 Village just next to the cinemas) opened its doors to sit
down diners a few weeks ago on 23rd March. Located in the old
News Café site, the Spur is situated conveniently for cinema goers,
shoppers and families looking for a great meal. While Spur has built
their reputation on steaks and burgers, they also offer salads and
vegetarian friendly meals and decadent desserts. The restaurant is
fully licensed too.

Although development was completed and the restaurant was ready
to open a while back, in April 2020, Spur elected to keep the doors
shut for almost a year until the lockdown restrictions were partially
eased. They are still only operating at 50% of their seating capacity
and under restricted opening times, in line with the new Covid
regulations. The restaurant has a seating capacity of 180 diners,
inside and in the outside seating area. They are currently open from
8am until 7pm, daily, perfect for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The
trading hours will be reviewed once regulations are eased.

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Spur Steak Ranches has a history in Zimbabwe, with restaurants that The Spur Corporation started out in Cape Town in 1967 when Allen Ambor
had closed unfortunately, some years ago. In 2020 local food giant, opened the Golden Spur in Newlands. From humble beginnings the simple
Simbisa, was excited to re-launch the Spur franchise in Zimbabwe steakhouse restaurant has grown into the Spur Corporation which now
with the development of Buffalo Creek Spur in Harare. Simbisa’s includes Spur International, Spur Steak Ranches, Panarottis Pizza Pasta,
expansion strategy includes opening Spurs in other locations in the John Dory’s Fish Grill Sushi, The Hussar Grill, RocoMamas, Spur Grill & Go
future. The Simbisa Group includes a number of well-loved QSR (Quick and Casa Bella. It currently has 569 outlets worldwide, with restaurants in
Service Restaurant) outlets such as Chicken Inn, Pizza Inn, Baker’s Inn, various parts of Africa, Mauritius, the Middle East and Australasia.
RocoMamas, Nandos and more across Zimbabwe. They have a wealth
of experience and expertise in the fast casual dining business. With such
skilled backing and support, Buffalo Creek Spur is bound to succeed!

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Structure and Design was lucky enough
to meet up with Maarten Pienaar,
Regional Operations Manager for the Spur
Corporation for the whole of Africa, at the
new Buffalo Creek Spur. Pienaar was here
to oversee the opening of the restaurant
on 23rd March and stayed on over the
Easter holiday to ensure that everything
is running smoothly to Spur’s stringent
international standards. He assured us that
the Borrowdale restaurant is certainly on
par with the group’s other outlets around
the world – in terms of the interior design
and layout, the menu, the presentation and
the service.

The interior layout and décor of the
restaurant was drawn up by South African
company Design Concepts in line with
the Spur restaurant building and décor
specifications. This ensures that all Spur
outlets have a coherent theme and a
similar image and that the kitchens, serving
areas and seating arrangements are of a
consistently high standard. In keeping with
Spur’s image as a family restaurant nearly
all Spur restaurants have a supervised play
area for kids that is safe and fun – perfect
for kids’ birthday parties or just to keep the
little ones occupied while the adults enjoy
their meals. Design Concepts also specify
décor items like the themed light fittings
and the Native American inspired artworks.

Local company A. M. Machado Building
Contractors were selected as the main
contractors for the re-fit as they have a
great reputation for both construction
and complex shopfitting projects. (See
Structure and Design issue 29 for examples
of Machado’s shopfitting at CIMAS’s new
headquarters in Borrowdale.) The exterior
of the new restaurant has almost the same
footprint as the old News Café except that
the southwest corner, which was formerly
enclosed with canvas drops, has now been
enclosed in aluminium and glass with a
Chromadek roof, and incorporated into the
interior space. The outside dining deck was
pre-existing although it’s been spruced up
with new floor tiles.

Inside the restaurant is radically different.
The old News Café fixtures and built
in fittings (including the kitchen) were
demolished to accommodate the new
layout. Floors were stripped, new raised
sections for seating were built and the
whole space was retiled. Floor tiles are set
out in a square pattern for most of the open
walking and serving space while the seating
booths have tiles in a different colour or set
out in a herringbone pattern to demarcate
various areas and different uses.

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Planter boxes and partition walls for the seating The existing bathroom facilities were completely to see out and to be watched by their parents. The
booths were added as well as the built in serving gutted and refitted by Machado who installed new partitions also help keep the noise down! New
counters which separate the kitchen and the bar tiles, sanitary ware and custom made Meranti suspended ceilings and bulkheads were installed
area from the main restaurant. A new reception doors. There’s an interesting tile design in the together with new air conditioning ducts and
and cashier’s desk were added to the entrance bathrooms – small triangular sections at the tops of vents and a new electrical layout for the lighting
to create that well-known Spur welcome. Exposed the walls have been clad in timber strips in contrast plan. The suspended ceilings and the aluminium
brickwork and timber cladding on sections of the to the wall tiles. windows and doors were supplied and fitted by
walls adds textural interest. An interesting detail Postcorp Aluminium and Glass. The electrical plan
that’s unique to this branch is the embossed The glass and aluminium partitioning for the kids’ also meant that new DB boards were needed with
Zimbabwe bird set on the wall above the long play area was added to ensure the young ones’ the electrical work done by Cypriano Electrical
bench seat adjacent to the play area. safety in a controlled space, while still being able under sub-contract to Machado.

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The lights consist of downlighters, spots and themed hanging pendant
 lights which together with some exposed timber beams and decorated
 dropped bulkheads add warmth and cosiness.

 Most of the interior furniture – booth seats, chairs and tables – was
 imported from Spur’s South African suppliers, although Machado
 needed to assemble some of it and make repairs where goods had
 been damaged in transit. The reception desk was sent up too, but
 Machado adapted it slightly to create a perfect fit.

 The kitchen was completely relocated from the old News Café layout
 and set up in an open plan layout so diners can see their food being
 prepared. It’s all part of the experience and the theatre of the dining
 experience, and as the regional manager said, “We’ve got nothing to
 hide!” The kitchen fittings - grillers and fryers, fridges and freezers
 and all the other necessary apparatus, including the extractors and
 dishwashers - were all imported from South Africa and are standard
 Spur equipment. Machado oversaw all the new plumbing, electrics and
 gas installation for the kitchen and cold rooms.

 The result is a fantastic new venue that’s sophisticated, but also family
 friendly and conforms to Spur Corporations high class international
 standards. The menu offers something for everyone and it’s reasonably
 priced too.
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 A TASTE
FOR LIFE

BUFFALO CREEK SPUR
SAM LEVY, BORROWDALE
The visuals are for descriptive purposes and meals served could vary.
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Cyrex Branding
 Logos, Corporate Identities & More

 text: Michael Nott
 photos: Structure and Design and Cyrex

C
 yrex Branding was started back in 2006 by local
 entrepreneurs Annabell and Wisdom Gakaka, working
 out of a small office in Harare CBD . Initially their focus
was almost exclusively on the design aspects of logos, branding and
signage, incorporating the creating and refining of corporate images
and identities. Over the years, as their experience grew, they expanded
into the manufacture, production and installation of a wide variety
of signage, branding, corporate gifts and merchandising and even
sampling booths and exhibition stands. They now describe themselves
as a “Premium Promo house” and “Brand Application Specialists”
with the vision to “help you bring your brand to your target market in a
creative and cost effective way”. While they’ve maintained their highly
original and innovative creative side they’ve also become experts in all
the most up to date technical aspects of sign and brand creation.

Their scope of work includes the now fairly commonplace cut vinyl
signage, 3D channel and cut out lettering, illuminated signs, banners and
billboards, flags, teardrops and fountain signs, printing onto PVC, Panaflex
and wide format printing, vehicle branding, residential signs and a host of
other visual formats and applications.

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Cyrex Branding are at the forefront of modern trends both in the visual
 creative field and in their on-going investment in new technology and
As with most areas of design and manufacturing global trends keep on manufacturing machinery. They are constantly upgrading their skills
evolving and changing, both visually and technically. The film industry, and their equipment - as well as continuously training their staff in new
for example, has come a long way from the old black and white movies methods of production. Their new equipment is imported from around
with simple painted backgrounds to the current movies with highly the world and usually, especially with the more complex machinery, the
specialised computer generated effects. The old neon signs made manufacturer will send out a technician to install the equipment and train
from bent and shaped glass tubes are now seldom seen – in fact they the operators in their uses and maintenance.
now have a kind of retro look about them. They’ve been replaced by
illuminated signs using LED rope or strip lights or outdoor digital display
boards. Cut or printed vinyl has replaced hand-painted signs and spray
guns have taken the place of paint brushes.

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Cyrex Branding can even turn their skills to interior décor particularly for
the creation of corporate images. Their own reception area at their office
is a good example – there’s an orange cut out Cyrex logo on a grey wall,
orange lights above the reception desk, an orange wall clock and one
orange wall. Although it’s not overpowering it all comes together as a
coherent whole. While part of the impact is very bold and direct there’s
also a subliminal impact that stays with you long after you’ve left their
office. You’re certainly likely to remember them! Cyrex Branding also has
a dye sublimation facility, which produces fabric prints for curtains or
cushions with unique designs for corporates or interior designers.

So signage and brand creation is not just about names and logos –
there’s a psychological aspect to it too.

 Cyrex Branding excels at work on corporate projects, often working with
 architects, engineers, designers and contractors from the concept stage
 so that the resulting branding and corporate image is an integrated
 part of the overall design – rather than something added on at the last
 minute as a bit of an afterthought. They frequently work as part of a
 creative team that includes builders, bricklayers, carpenters, ceiling and
 partitioning installers, painters and a host of other disciplines in order to
 make a client’s dream a reality. Although each project is intensely client-
 based Cyrex Branding also works closely with advertising agencies and
 marketing experts to achieve the shared end goal.

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Just a few of their major clients include
 international brands such as Ster
 Kinekor, Avis and Pizza Hut, banks like
 Banc ABC, FBC, Nedbank and CABS,
 large corporates like Lafarge, Lamasat
 and Beta Bricks, vehicle branding for
 Utande and Avis, NGOs like the British
 Council, property developers like Old
 Mutual, restaurants, cafes and fast
 food outlets, residential properties,
 lodges and guest houses and even the
 health care sector.

 Cyrex Branding also offers nationwide
 maintenance plans whereby they’ll
 periodically check on a client’s
 signage to make sure it hasn’t faded,
 lights up correctly, remains structurally
 sound and still looks as good as new.

 Cyrex Branding are situated at 60
 McChlery Avenue in Eastlea, Harare
 Call: +263772401008
 Email: wisdom@cyrexbiz.com
 Instagram: cyrexbranding
 Facebook: cyrexbranding
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St Michael’s Primary
 School Grows Up
 text: Michael Nott | photos: Scotty Photography | renders and plans: Architectural and Planning Studio

F
 rom the time St Michael’s Presentation Primary School
 opened in 1951 up until 2015 St Michael’s functioned as
 a preparatory school for children up to Grade 3. From there
students would go on to Hartmann House to complete their junior
school years and then most would go on to St George’s College for
their senior school tuition. In 2015 St Michael’s opened their ECD
block in line with government regulations that all junior schools should
establish ECD classes. Then in 2017 St Michael’s opened their first
Grade 4 class, with Grade 5 following in 2018, Grade 6 in 2019 and
Grade 7 in 2020. The new developments were in part stimulated by St
George’s decision to introduce new classes at Hartmann House from
ECD to include Grades 1, 2 and 3 which meant that Hartmann House
would no longer be in a position to accept all of St Michael’s boys
when they completed their Grade 3. Thus both Hartmann House and
St Michael’s would now be fully functional, independent junior schools
catering for pupils from ECD all the way to Grade 7. St Michael’s
students are, however, still given preferential consideration for entry
into Form One at St George’s College.

The growing number of students and the introduction of new Grades
meant that St Michael’s needed extra space to accommodate the new
classes. After careful consideration in 2019 work started in March
2020 on the construction of two new blocks of four classrooms which
were officially opened for classes at the end of the year. Construction
of the project took nine months to complete (including unforeseen
delays due to lockdown) with Kalamain Construction as the main
contractors and Brown’s Engineering providing the structural steel.
Quantity Surveying services were provided by QS Albert Muriwa from TN
Zuzanyika Associates.

 ISSUE 38 45

The history of St Michael’s begins in faraway Ireland and dates back as far as
 1775 when Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Congregation (Sisters
 of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary) opened her little school in County
 Cork in Ireland. The first school, and other schools which followed, favoured
 the poor and underprivileged and were set up in defiance of the established
 order challenging the institutional injustices of the time. The schools spread to
 colonial India and later to Rhodesia where in 1949 they established mission
 stations and schools in the Eastern Highlands. In 1950 Bishop Chichester,
 great grand-nephew of Nano Nagle, invited the Presentation Sisters to open a
 Preparatory School for Catholic boys in what was then Salisbury. Subsequently
 in December 1950, Mother Bernard Ryan and Sr Marie Louise Frost took
 possession of the current property in Borrowdale – the former residence of Sir
 Ernest Montagu who had purchased the original site in 1912 from Frederick
 Courteney Selous. St Michael’s Preparatory School was opened in 1951 with
 33 boys enrolled in Standard 1 and 2. Initially classes were held in the Convent
 where the Presentation Sisters now live. In 1951 tenders were invited for the
 construction of new classrooms. The new school building was officially opened
 in 10 February 1953 with 40 boarders and 135 day scholars.

 In 1963 the Presentation Sisters – like their founder Nano Nagle - once
 again found themselves challenging the established colonial order when they
 accepted Solomon Chiweshe as their first black pupil. At that time blacks and
 whites were required to live separately and attend different schools.

 As the school continued to grow more buildings were constructed and added
 in an organic way as needed, although with little consideration of an overall
 plan for the layout of the classrooms on the site, and in an incoherent
 assortment of architectural styles – different styles of windows and doors
 and a variety of roofing materials including tiles, asbestos sheeting and
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St Michael’s, under the aegis of current headmistress Mrs Cathy Once the masterplan was drawn up APS could continue to plan the
Shadwell, approached local practice Architectural and Planning Studio classroom blocks confident that the new buildings would be an integral
to design two new classroom blocks, each made up of two classrooms, part of the school’s future development. Cochrane worked on the
storerooms and ablutions. Graham Cochrane from APS immediately design with his team from APS which included Craig Muyambo and
realised that the project would involve more than simply plans for Tadiwa Mashiri.
additional classrooms and a decision about where to site them – there
needed to be a masterplan that would at least attempt to create The classroom blocks are set out on a roughly east/west axis so that
some coherence from the existing structures as well as allowing for they can take advantage of winter sun for natural warmth and sunlight
future expansion. After careful consideration of the various elements in winter, while remaining cool in summer. Between the two classroom
involved – the site, the environment, climate issues, the direction of blocks is an interior courtyard bound by the two structures and partially
the sunlight, as well as the needs of the school – a comprehensive closed at the end facing the courtyard by an exposed brick wall.
masterplan was drawn up. The scheme would place the new The wall has a slightly playful design with alternate squares of brick
classrooms almost opposite the existing main administration block in punched out in a relief pattern and squares left open as see-through
the middle of what was originally a sports field. (There’s plenty of space voids. The wall has an L-shaped concrete bench running across it and
on the large grounds for other sports fields so the loss of the field was alongside a built in planter box. The partially enclosed space can be
not a major drawback.) The position of the new classroom blocks, used simply as a play area or as an outdoor classroom. The wall is
together with the existing buildings, would help to create a roughly repeated to the side of both classroom blocks.
circular enclosed space which could be used for school assemblies Both blocks have a covered verandah running down the full length
or other functions. It would also leave space for future construction to where pupils can hang up their satchels and blazers and assemble
close up the circle and define it more clearly. According to Cochrane, before classes. Careful attention has been paid to the height of
“The concept masterplan design of the school aims to achieve a the windows to allow the maximum amount of light to enter the
progression of phases that untimely results in a large courtyard space classrooms while preventing kids outside peering into the classrooms
- the heart of the school. The courtyard space could contain a variety of and distracting the learners inside during their lessons. There are
outdoor learning spaces such as small amphitheatres or even diverse windows on both sides of the classrooms to allow for good ventilation
mini-biomes or ponds to add to classroom-based learning. The design and temperature control helping to create comfortable working
of the courtyard would aim to be an exceptional facility that provides environments.
a safe, protective, accessible and effective learning environment.”

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While 2021 has brought much delight and many reasons for
 celebrating, including the new classrooms and the new masterplan
 for the school, it also brought some sadness. Sadly the school
 mourned the passing of Sr Margaret Duggan, associated with
 the school since 1985, first as a Grade One teacher, then as
 Headmistress and later as the Representative of the Presentation
At the end of each classroom block an open walk-through space leads Sisters in the school. She suffered a stroke on New Year’s Eve and
to ablutions – one section for staff and one for students. There are passed away on the 18th January 2021.
plans to have lockers installed here for students’ personal effects.
Inside the classrooms are fairly plain and utilitarian with good natural Cochrane succinctly says of the new project, “We recognize that
lighting and airflow. There are the usual built in blackboards as well the best school environments give an impression of liveliness, with
as smart boards for projecting slides or videos and pin boards for attractive spaces and a general feeling of pleasantness which it is
posters and illustrations. One classroom has been set up as science difficult to define.”
laboratory with benches and the necessary teaching equipment.
Floors are plain polished concrete and ceilings are tongue and groove
pine which follow the pitch of the roof. The high ceilings give the
impression of an extra volume of space, keep the rooms cool and
help to deaden echoes and reverberations.

On one of the classroom blocks the pitched roof is extended
outward towards the large central quad creating a small stage with a
paved, slightly raised floor. The open gable end of the roof has been
enclosed by an ornate metal screen designed and manufactured by
metalworking guru Alain Grand from the local company Arrosoir et
Persil (www.arrosoir-et-persil.fr), specialists in decorative metalwork.
The design incorporates a lantern shining through a network of oak
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their Junction branch in Southerton and at Muzurabani, Ruwa, Triangle and over the entrance, a new more open and attractive glass façade, some
at Kelvin Corner in Graniteside. These branches only sell cement so far and bright eye-catching signage and a new bright green palisade fence that
are not yet fully fledged hardware stores. separates the parking space from Boshoff Drive. Combined together a
 few renovations can transform a tired old building and create a vibrant,
Gain Cash and Carry was first registered in 2016 – the company being new and very distinctive corporate image. It’s bound to attract their
formed by a management buyout of 59 National Foods outlets across target market – individual home owners and DIYers (both local and
Zimbabwe. Initially Gain distributed mostly National Foods products in in the diaspora) big contractors in the construction and renovation
their FMCG outlets but soon expanded and diversified to offer a full range industries as well as institutions embarking on new projects or updating
of supermarket goods. At this stage there were two main store formats existing, established ones.
– the wholesale supermarkets and dedicated stockfeed stores. In 2019
management decided to grow and expand into the hardware sector and
their ‘store within a store’ concept was born. Hardware seemed a logical
addition to their already extensive portfolio. They opened their first Gain
Hardware in Gweru in November 2019 and Graniteside was officially
opened in February this year.

The newest addition to their stable, situated on the corner of Boshoff
Drive and Kelvin Road South in Graniteside, Harare, is dedicated solely
to hardware, building and agricultural products. It’s opposite Waverly
Blankets in the premises formerly occupied by UBM Hardware. The
building has been sort of turned around, so the main frontage and the
entrance is now from Boshoff Drive rather than from Kelvin Road. The
UBM building had been vacant for a number of years and was desperately
in need of being brought back to life. The various buildings and warehouse
spaces were ideally suited to their needs and there was not a great deal
of structural work needed to make the premises function efficiently.
Most of the structural work was cosmetic and involved renovations and
refurbishment rather than drastic changes.

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