WAF World Architecture Festival Awards 2017

Ntsika Architects will take the award for the best Health - Completed Buildings entry home to South Africa for their Westbury Clinic in Johannesburg. The building offers up a new public space in a troubled neighbourhood that has been marred by gang violence and substance abuse over the years since Apartheid, providing a much-needed amenity to service 550,000 patients from a marginalised community. Consulting its local, marginalised community in developing the design and removing fences from the building’s boundaries contributed to a result that judges commended for “creating a building that reaches beyond its clinical programme and becomes a new communal centre for Westbury.”