Posted on September 16th 2016

Paragon has reached 50% gender parity.

The Paragon Group, Architects and Interior Architecture has reached gender parity in their office. Fully half the production staff of the Group are women. The majority of our major projects are lead by women to the extent that it is hardly worth mentioning.

We spoke to a few women in our office about their experiences as women in architecture. See their responses below.

Posted on July 14th 2016

Paragon Architects and Paragon Interface as part of the leading fray : Article in Design Times July 2016

Posted on June 30th 2016

Anthony Orelowitz, Vivien Yun and Amir Livneh attended the Awards Ceremony in Venice to receive 3rd prize in this prestigious biennial Award ceremony, for Alexander Forbes.

More information here .

Posted on June 2nd 2016

Paragon is a proud supporter of the Architect Africa Film Festival 2016.

Posted on May 31st 2016

Paragon New Staff Appointments

A downloadable document is available below:

Press Release Appointments May 2016

The founding directors of Paragon Group, Anthony Orelowitz and Henning Rasmuss are delighted to announce new appointments within the Paragon Group. The company has grown significantly throughout all divisions over the last couple of years and in order to better service our clients, projects and staff we have provided more depth to our skills.  In order to achieve these aims a number of appointments have been made with immediate effect. Paragon Architects now has 5 directors and 2 Senior Associates, Paragon Interface now has 3 directors and 3 Associates, whilst Paragon Architects South Africa has 3 directors. The shareholding of Thulani Sibande within this division has increased from 39% to 51% and has a BEE rating of 2.

In order to stay abreast of the rapid technical evolution within Architecture and the Construction industry, a number of Group Specialisations have also been appointed. 

Posted on September 21st 2015

Paragon Architects won the SAIA AfriSam award for 2014 for the Alexander Forbes building. Read the story here.

Posted on September 4th 2015

Very instructive site visit to the Sasol building on Thursday 3 September 2015.

Posted on August 5th 2015

Allen Chen and Stacey Leader have joined Paragon Architects

We are pretty chuffed to have two new staff members at Paragon Architects.