And their work is getting international recognition
City Park wins landscaping award
Date: July 20, 2012
THE Municipality’s Gugu Dlamini Park won a Gold Award for Excellence for its outstanding landscaping and turf management architecture at the African Landscaping Institute Awards recently. The park situated next to the Workshop Shopping Centre is the favourite amongst Durban people and known to many as the “love nest”. The awards aims to acknowledge and promote excellence in landscape erchitecture and environmental planning. Accepting the award, the Head of Parks, Recreation and Culture, Thembinkosi Ngcobo said, this is an indication that not all is gloom and dull. “This provides us with more room to be more creative and to revive the passion for our careers. There was a time where Durban was colourful and we need to bring that back. We have seen the work that Drake and Scull has done under the Priority Zone project.
This is just an indication of what can be achieved when government and private sector join forces,” said Ngcobo. The Urban Development Manager at City Architects Department, Derrick White said, Drake and Scull under the Priority Zone project have done exceptionally well in the past three years especially in their landscaping component, this is a feather in a cap for the City and for the PRC Unit.
The Facilities Manager at Drake and Scull, Thobile Mkhize, said they entered Gugu Dlamini Park for the national award by the South African Landscaping Institute under the Landscaping and Turf Management category. “This is a great achievement. This was achieved by working together with line departments, through constant liaison and walk about as to how can we constantly improve the Priority Zone Precinct .We have received another award for the roof garden under the categories, Best Specialised Construction, Best In-house Design and Waterwise,” Mkhize explained.
