SAOTA is a Cape Town, South Africa–based architecture and design firm with a global footprint, operating projects across six continents. Their work emphasizes the intersection of form, function, and context, delivering sophisticated architecture that is simultaneously elegant and deeply responsive to environment. The firm is led by a team of principals including Stefan Antoni, Philip Olmesdahl, and Greg Truen, among others, who together steer a studio culture committed to excellence, inquiry, and technical rigor.
Their portfolio spans luxury residential, commercial, hospitality, public, and master planning work, characterized by refined detailing, environmental sensitivity, and an ability to adapt design strategies to diverse climates and cultures. SAOTA’s architecture has garnered multiple awards and recognition globally, underlining its stature as one of South Africa’s most influential contemporary practices.
LOCATION: Cape Town, South Africa
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In the Russian Capital of Moscow, this contemporary home, set among the pine woods on an island in the Moskva River, introduces a revolutionary outward-looking approach to the city’s architectural tradition.
The restoration of the ensemble of heritage buildings on Buffelsdrift, west of Ladismith in the arid Klein Karoo region of the Western Cape, by SAOTA and Jaco Booyens Architect, a specialist in clay buildings
Overlooking the Atlantic Seaboard in Bantry Bay, Horizon Villa boasts the perfect balance between luxury and comfort. The property had an existing house, which totally under-utilized the site’s fantastic characteristics.
SAOTA’s Hillside home in Los Angeles is located immediately above Sunset Boulevard on a promontory just one over from Pierre Koenig’s landmark Stahl House.
South Villa is a five-story penthouse in the award-winning Clifton Terraces apartments on Victoria Road, Cape Town. Its elevated position on the iconic Lion’s Head takes in extravagant ocean views and local landmarks such as Table Mountain…
This summer house is set on the banks of Lake Huron in a small, remote Canadian town about an hour’s drive from London, Ontario. While the architectural context might be characterised as somewhat conservative “cabin country”, this…
This family home and office on the banks of Lake Geneva, with architecture by SAOTA and interiors by ARRCC, was designed for a successful Senegalese businessman based in Switzerland. The home draws on the owner’s heritage to…
Nature pervades the Benguela Cove House –the seamless flow of internal floors and ceilings out into external living spaces is mirrored by the fynbos planting which stalks the edges of the internal envelope, …
Located in the leafy suburb of Higgovale, set below the iconic Table Mountain, House Invermark overlooks the city and harbour of Cape Town. Forty seven years after receiving a medal for excellence, House Invermark has been awarded…
