Rand Airport: Earn your heritage wings

Led by David Gurney

The Rand Airport was opened in August 1935 and was immediately acknowledged by The Times as one of the Empire’s most modern and best equipped airports. The Terminal building is a masterpiece of streamlined modern design with hovering cantilevers and supporting columns evoking an aircraft undercarriage. 80 years later, Johannesburg has developed into a regional aviation hub, and the main airport with its frenetic pace have decamped to the less evocative buildings of OR Tambo in Kempton Park. But Rand Airport still performs an important role in the charter aviation industry, and its buildings – featuring startlingly white cubist and rounded forms – are still a delight to behold.