The new Cheetah Plains game lodge in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, designed by ARRCC.
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Cheetah Plains reinvents traditional safari‐style architecture to create an altogether new safari experience of nature from within, combining state‐of‐the‐art sustainable architecture with a pioneering Afro‐minimalist aesthetic.
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Cheetah Plains contrasts confident contemporary inorganic forms with the natural landscape.
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“Our lifestyles are modern; nature is raw and primal. It is in that honest contrast that a beautiful tension exists.” ~ Stefan Antoni, Lead Architect
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“The architecture exists to enhance the experience of the outdoors – not to mimic it, but to complement it so that guests may experience the bush more directly, more immediately.” ~ Stefan Antoni
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The lodge accommodation at Cheetah Plains is split into three separate private components referred to as the Plains Houses.
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Each Plains House has a private arrival courtyard with covered canopy, an expansive open‐plan lounge, dining and bar space with adjoining air‐conditioned wine room and a private family/media room.
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The open, seamless boundaries between interior and exterior have the effect of immersing guests in their environment rather than placing them on a platform, reduced to mere spectatorship.
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“The idea was always to redefine luxury and usher in a new language of African design for safari.” ~ Mark Rielly, ARCC Director of Interior Design
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Hand‐blown glass chandeliers by Martin Doller reflect and refract the natural light from the surrounding bushveld.
Image Courtesy: ARRCC