Square One Landscape Architects


Based in Cape Town, South Africa, over the past 6 years, we have successfully designed and optimised over 130 projects across all scales of urban design, architecture, environmental planning and engineering to produce plans and details that are integrated across an entire project. We strive to innovate on every project through designing developmental playgrounds, finding […]

Our concept of “Working ecology into the cultural landscape” explores opportunities for connection to ‘Place’ by revealing and interweaving cultural and natural heritage informants to create valuable environments for people to connect with each other in nature.  The design comprises three landscape realms of forest, glade and meadow connected by a curved pathway that evokes […]

Learning through Play A first for Africa, the Breede Valley Primary School project was established to bring environmentally integrated learning facilities to an economically vulnerable farming community with high rates of community health challenges in the Cape Winelands district of South Africa. Situated on the slopes of the magnificent Breede River Valley, the original school […]

For our winning entry in a design competition, we re-imagined an existing car park ramp as a multi-purpose meeting, recreation, and event space as part of a broader building refurbishment. This spiral ramp structure forms the core of the long four-storey building which is located in a district of large, low rise commercial and industrial […]

The Towers development sought to link two towers with a new building partially covering an unused plaza in the Foreshore area of Cape Town’s central business district. The Foreshore is located between the modern port of Cape Town and the historic city centre. This area was reclaimed from the sea in Table Bay between the […]