The design of a maritime museum in the Durban harbour
- Authors: Holgate, Richard
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Museum architecture -- South Africa -- Durban -- Designs and plans Naval museums -- South Africa -- Darban -- Designs and plans
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/19916 , vital:29005
- Description: This treatise focuses on the design of a maritime museum for Durban’s harbour. The building is concerned with the preservation of three vessels, namely the “JR More”, the “SAS Durban”, and the “Ulundi” that are currently stationed at the existing museum. The purpose of the treatise is to investigate the issues and processes involved in the design of a maritime museum in Durban. The research begins with an analysis of the typology in order to better understand the spatial and physical nature of a maritime museum. A set of architectural issues are identified in response to which an appropriate architectural design is proposed. Four particular precedents are investigated for which the spatial make up of each buildings is divided into categories, and the relationships between these are analyzed. The physical nature of the buildings is established, resulting in the identification of an appropriate architectural language. Analysis of the precedents leads to site selection criteria which are used to select an appropriate site from these possibilities. The nature of site is then investigated. A set of informants and constraints are developed by identifying the issues of site. The structuring elements of site are analysed individually and precedents are studied to establish a response to these issues. An architectural language that is site specific is then developed by investigating the nature of industrial harbours. With an understanding of the spatial and physical make up of the typology paired with responses to the specific issues of site, a maritime museum for Durban’s harbour is designed.
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- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Holgate, Richard
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Museum architecture -- South Africa -- Durban -- Designs and plans Naval museums -- South Africa -- Darban -- Designs and plans
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/19916 , vital:29005
- Description: This treatise focuses on the design of a maritime museum for Durban’s harbour. The building is concerned with the preservation of three vessels, namely the “JR More”, the “SAS Durban”, and the “Ulundi” that are currently stationed at the existing museum. The purpose of the treatise is to investigate the issues and processes involved in the design of a maritime museum in Durban. The research begins with an analysis of the typology in order to better understand the spatial and physical nature of a maritime museum. A set of architectural issues are identified in response to which an appropriate architectural design is proposed. Four particular precedents are investigated for which the spatial make up of each buildings is divided into categories, and the relationships between these are analyzed. The physical nature of the buildings is established, resulting in the identification of an appropriate architectural language. Analysis of the precedents leads to site selection criteria which are used to select an appropriate site from these possibilities. The nature of site is then investigated. A set of informants and constraints are developed by identifying the issues of site. The structuring elements of site are analysed individually and precedents are studied to establish a response to these issues. An architectural language that is site specific is then developed by investigating the nature of industrial harbours. With an understanding of the spatial and physical make up of the typology paired with responses to the specific issues of site, a maritime museum for Durban’s harbour is designed.
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- Date Issued: 2016
Director's duties under the Companies Act 71 of 2008
- Authors: van Tonder, Jan-Louis
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: South Africa -- Companies Act, 2008 Corporation law -- South Africa , Commercial law -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , LLM
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/47892 , vital:40397
- Description: This research focuses on an analysis of the prescribed standards of directors’ conduct provision. The thesis of the dissertation is to analyse what this provision introduces into statute. Previously, the fiduciary duties and the duty of care and skill were regulated by the common law and case law. In May 2004 the Department of Trade and Industry released a policy document entitled South African Company Law for the 21st Century Guidelines for Corporate Law Reform. The policy document acknowledged that South Africa had no extensive statutory dispensation that covered the duties of directors. The policy document recognised the need to bring South African company law in line with international trends and to reflect and accommodate the changing environment for businesses locally and internationally. For the first time in South Africa’s corporate law history, the Companies Act 71 of 2008 partially codifies the fiduciary duties of directors, the duty of care and skill and introduces the business judgment rule into South African company law. The research establishes what the standards of conduct are that are expected of directors and analyses the meaning of these duties in the standards of directors’ conduct provision. The research examines whether the duties introduced in the standards of conduct provision are aligned to the common law principles. It will consider whether the standards of conduct provision amends the common law principles, adds anything new or narrows the common law duties in its statutory format.
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- Date Issued: 2014
- Authors: van Tonder, Jan-Louis
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: South Africa -- Companies Act, 2008 Corporation law -- South Africa , Commercial law -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , LLM
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/47892 , vital:40397
- Description: This research focuses on an analysis of the prescribed standards of directors’ conduct provision. The thesis of the dissertation is to analyse what this provision introduces into statute. Previously, the fiduciary duties and the duty of care and skill were regulated by the common law and case law. In May 2004 the Department of Trade and Industry released a policy document entitled South African Company Law for the 21st Century Guidelines for Corporate Law Reform. The policy document acknowledged that South Africa had no extensive statutory dispensation that covered the duties of directors. The policy document recognised the need to bring South African company law in line with international trends and to reflect and accommodate the changing environment for businesses locally and internationally. For the first time in South Africa’s corporate law history, the Companies Act 71 of 2008 partially codifies the fiduciary duties of directors, the duty of care and skill and introduces the business judgment rule into South African company law. The research establishes what the standards of conduct are that are expected of directors and analyses the meaning of these duties in the standards of directors’ conduct provision. The research examines whether the duties introduced in the standards of conduct provision are aligned to the common law principles. It will consider whether the standards of conduct provision amends the common law principles, adds anything new or narrows the common law duties in its statutory format.
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- Date Issued: 2014
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