SAOTA: How architects from ‘one end of the world’ created luxury homes around the globe

Stefan Antoni, founder of South African architecture firm SAOTA, likes to tell a story from when the company’s Cape Town office was under construction. The roof was being hauled into place when he realized part of the view of Table Mountain would be cut off. Work stopped. The whole roof was redesigned so that the city’s iconic flat-top mountain could remain unobstructed. “To capture that view was crucial,” Antoni said. “If you had not, you had erred terribly.”Stefan Antoni, founder of South African architecture firm SAOTA, likes to tell a story from when the company’s Cape Town office was under construction. The roof was being hauled into place when he realized part of the view of Table Mountain would be cut off. Work stopped. The whole roof was redesigned so that the city’s iconic flat-top mountain could remain unobstructed. “To capture that view was crucial,” Antoni said. “If you had not, you had erred terribly.”