Press Releases
| IRENE VILLAGE MALL WINS NATIONAL AWARD! It’s official - of all the gardens at all the malls, Irene Village Mall has the fairest of them all. Read more... |
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| Irene Village Mall Milking Awards PMR Afruca: Diamond Arrow Awards (Tswane)
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| Boeremark at Irene Village Mall Despite the unexpected winter cold that struck Irene on Saturday morning 31 October 2009, eager market shoppers descended on Irene Village Mall to visit the first “Boeremark at Irene Village Mall”. Read more... |
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| Silent Movie Silent Night – Movies & Carols at Irene Village Mall It’s Christmas time and time for family and friends to enjoy some wholesome good old fashioned fun and entertainment. It’s all happening at Irene Village Mall on Saturday evening the 28th of November in the Piazza! Read more... |
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| Irene Village Mall scoops top design award Irene Village Mall has scooped up one of the top prizes at the South African Council of Shopping Centres’ (SACSC) Spectrum Awards, which took place on 15 October at Emperors Palace. Read more... |
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| Irene Village Mall Robbery On Wednesday morning 22 October 2008 at 04h17, approximately fifteen armed men entered Irene Village Mall with six vehicles and robbed four stores. They left the Mall at 04h25. A Security Guard was held at gun point but nobody was injured during the incident. Read more... |
| Apollonian – Dionysian Of the three sculptures produced for the Irene Mall, Apollonian – Dionysian is perhaps the most traditional in approach. Two cast-steel male figures squat with a board game between them, seeming to pose philosophical questions as to their relationship to one another and to the public bustling around them Read more... |
| The Udder Side In one of his biggest projects to date, Angus Taylor, together with fellow artists and assistants from Dionysus Sculpture Works (DSW), has recently completed the construction and installation of three monumental public sculptures at the new Irene Mall. This is arguably one of Taylor’s most successful ventures too, especially in view of the fact that he has just been nominated for the 2008 Visi Designer of the Year awards for this work. Read more... |
| Triksie Staying with the cow theme at the Irene Mall is Triksie, a gigantic 6 by 4 by 3.5 meter herbaceous sculptural form of a cow that stands guard at the main entrance. Read more... |
| Public Sculpture goes Underground at the Irene Mall In one of his biggest projects to date, Angus Taylor, together with fellow artists and assistants from Dionysus Sculpture Works (DSW), has just completed the construction and installation of a number of monumental public sculptures at the new Irene Mall. Read more... |
| Texts for Plaques The Udder Side Public sculpture is often expected to be imbued with a sense of solemnity and reverence. Not so The Udder Side which elevates the banal and seeks to introduce an element of playfulness and fun. The piece is an affectionate send-up of the dairy cow – the unofficial symbol of Irene. Read more... |
Some Cow Facts
- 1,200 construction workers built the shopping centre.
- The Tower and its water reservoir is a new landmark in Irene.
- The centre has 95 segmental arches in the brickwork.