David Coates Architect offers complete, professional architectural services from Knysna, on the Garden Route in the Western Cape of South Africa.

The practice focuses on the design and delivery of upmarket homes. As a small practice striving to provide high service levels to clients, design quality is integrated with cost-effective delivery. Design emphasis is on enhancement of lifestyle, typically approached by infusing the client’s brief with the surrounding landscape and local context. The interrelationship of interior spaces with exterior spaces is seminal.

The practice is enthusiastic about investigating opportunities for using the latest technologies and natural materials. David has a strong interest in eco-design, energy efficiency and sustainability and is a qualified Green Star Professional.

David’s experience in formative years ranges from exclusive residential developments, hotel resorts, and commercial architecture encompassing feasibility studies and time-critical project control and delivery. The skills developed have strongly benefited not just design skills, but project administration ability which has been of great value, particularly since many of the practice’s clients are non-resident / international.