The Messaris Wapenaar group of architects have always followed market trends closely, developing a wide range of competencies to enable it to produce a variety of different building types and styles to suit the requirements of different clients. These have ranged from single residential dwellings to high-rise residential apartment blocks to hotels, while specialising in industrial and commercial developments such as shopping centres and large-scale office parks.

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ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN

We believe in producing appropriate architecture and urban design in order to meet different requirements, rather than selling a specific style or signature. As a result, we put a great deal of attention into the manipulation of space - the proportions of spaces, their orientation, their ease of use and fitness for purpose. This approach has several benefits; for one, it gives the firm an enormous diversity of styles within which to work while also obviating academic questions of style by concentrating on the fundamentals of creating pleasant, usable spaces.

COMMERCIAL, RESIDENTIAL & INDUSTRIAL

Over the past 25 years the company's expertise has grown enormously, enabling us to undertake large commercial projects. We have aimed as much as possible at the commercial market in the last 5 years and intend to keep focusing actively on this sector of the market, while still continuing to partcipate in residential dvelopments and developments in the industrial sectors.