Architecture
Contemporary, appropriate architectural design shaped by brief, context and technical resolution.
Explore →Pretoria · Architecture & design
Places with purpose.
MEG Architects brings architectural design, project management, space planning and development thinking into one conversation — with a published commitment to context, sustainability and client collaboration.
PretoriaHatfield-based architectural practice
1974Publicly documented practice roots
4 disciplinesArchitecture · PM · space · development
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Concept / context / coordination
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One practice, multiple scales
Design is only useful when it works.
MEG’s public profile combines architectural design with the practical disciplines that keep a project coherent: project management, spatial planning and development thinking. The emphasis is not a signature shape; it is a built response that understands people, place and long-term use.
Project management
Coordination around programme, decisions, consultants and delivery priorities.
Explore →Space planning
Planning environments around users, movement, flexibility and operational needs.
Explore →Development thinking
Early architectural input where site, feasibility, use and investment decisions need to align.
Explore →Selected documented work
A portfolio with different demands.
Rather than fill the page with anonymous imagery, this showcase uses projects that are independently documented as MEG work. Each one demonstrates a different kind of architectural problem: campus living, commercial scale, and heritage intervention.
Onderstepoort Student Housing
MEG delivered the first phase in 2011 and was commissioned for a second phase of three four-storey residence blocks, with published design attention to low maintenance and thermal performance.
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Alert Steel Retail & Warehouse
Project records identify MEG Architects as architect and principal agent for Alert Steel’s retail-and-warehouse work, showing the practice operating at commercial and industrial scale.
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Voortrekker Monument
A published contractor project profile names MEG Architects on a 2010 internal restoration involving acoustic coatings, sandstone and marble flooring, painting and waterproofing to the dome.
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Interactive Brief Studio
Turn an idea into a better first conversation.
Choose a project type, the priority that matters most, and where you are in the process. The diagram and preparation prompt adapt to help frame an initial architectural conversation. It is orientation only, not design or professional advice.
Useful first step
Priority prompt
Practice depth
50+
Years of practice history are supported by a 2014 industry article tracing MEG’s origins to 1974. The current studio is also listed as Fresh Design International’s Pretoria office.
Local knowledge. Wider design network.
Fresh Design International currently identifies MEG Architects as its Pretoria office and names Gerhard Els and Tienie Van Rooyen as Senior Partners. Tienie is publicly described as an architect, designer and sustainability entrepreneur.
Gerhard ElsSenior Partner · Pretoria
Tienie Van RooyenSenior Partner · Architect / designer / sustainability entrepreneur