BRENDA: SO wild...I was waiting for something to heat up and decided to google around justice and courthouses...WOW. I immediately ran across the attached paper-which certainly looks like the idea is to make it pretty. Here are the first 2 links.
http://www.justiceenvironments.edu.au/home
http://www.aia.org/caj_alliedevents
PAULETTE: Here is the link to S. Africa's Constitutional Court and its art collection - Justice Albie Sachs is the curator - he has been very eloquent about how important the art is to making people feel that they are achieving justice by seeing themselves. More digging needed -
https://mail.su.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/artcollection/overview.htm https://mail.su.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/judges/justicealbiesachs/index1.html '
http://www.justiceenvironments.edu.au/home
http://www.aia.org/caj_alliedevents
PAULETTE: Here is the link to S. Africa's Constitutional Court and its art collection - Justice Albie Sachs is the curator - he has been very eloquent about how important the art is to making people feel that they are achieving justice by seeing themselves. More digging needed -
https://mail.su.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/artcollection/overview.htm https://mail.su.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/judges/justicealbiesachs/index1.html '
the architecture of the South African constitutional court building: 
http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/thecourt/thebuilding.htm
"Public buildings normally shut off the outside world. Normally you get swallowed up in the power of the state or corporate entity, but here the building is saying, 'I belong to you, you belong to me' " - Justice Albie Sachs
"The building design was not about style but a value system enshrined in the Bill of Rights and the response to physical aspects of the site" - Janina Masojada, one of the principal architects
"The Constitutional Court building, indeed the entire Constitutional Hill precinct, will also stand as a beacon of light, a symbol of hope and celebration. Transforming a notorious icon of repression into its opposite, it will ease the memories of suffering inflicted in the dark corners, cells and corridors of the Old Fort Prison. Rising from the ashes of that ghastly era, it will shine forth as a pledge for all time that South Africa will never return to that abyss. It will stand as an affirmation that South Africa is indeed a better place for all" - Nelson Mandela, the former president, at the ceremony to announce the winner of the competition
The building: In 1893 a high-security prison was built on the Braamfontein ridge in Johannesburg. A few years later, the building of a series of forts around it strengthened the establishment and gave it military capacity. That site became a landmark.
It was known in some circles as the Johannesburg Fort and in others as Number Four, the name given to the frightening section in which black men were jailed. The complex housed three notorious prisons: the Fort, where white inmates were kept; Section Four and Section Five, the "natives' jail", built in 1902; and the women's jail, added in 1909.
Hundreds of thousands of people were jailed there - including famous figures such as Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Luthuli. Nelson Mandela paid the Fort a visit first as a young lawyer, then as a prisoner and finally as the president of South Africa. The prison was closed in 1983, leaving a scar on Johannesburg's metropolis - a bleak reminder of our painful past. It is unusual for a court to be built on the site of a prison, yet the Constitutional Court's judges deliberately chose the Old Fort - for the very reason of its history. This historically rich site - where densely populated and frenetic Hillbrow meets leafy and affluent Parktown and bureaucratic Braamfontein - is now Constitution Hill, the home of South Africa's highest court.
http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/thecourt/thebuilding.htm
"Public buildings normally shut off the outside world. Normally you get swallowed up in the power of the state or corporate entity, but here the building is saying, 'I belong to you, you belong to me' " - Justice Albie Sachs
"The building design was not about style but a value system enshrined in the Bill of Rights and the response to physical aspects of the site" - Janina Masojada, one of the principal architects
"The Constitutional Court building, indeed the entire Constitutional Hill precinct, will also stand as a beacon of light, a symbol of hope and celebration. Transforming a notorious icon of repression into its opposite, it will ease the memories of suffering inflicted in the dark corners, cells and corridors of the Old Fort Prison. Rising from the ashes of that ghastly era, it will shine forth as a pledge for all time that South Africa will never return to that abyss. It will stand as an affirmation that South Africa is indeed a better place for all" - Nelson Mandela, the former president, at the ceremony to announce the winner of the competition
The building: In 1893 a high-security prison was built on the Braamfontein ridge in Johannesburg. A few years later, the building of a series of forts around it strengthened the establishment and gave it military capacity. That site became a landmark.
It was known in some circles as the Johannesburg Fort and in others as Number Four, the name given to the frightening section in which black men were jailed. The complex housed three notorious prisons: the Fort, where white inmates were kept; Section Four and Section Five, the "natives' jail", built in 1902; and the women's jail, added in 1909.
Hundreds of thousands of people were jailed there - including famous figures such as Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Luthuli. Nelson Mandela paid the Fort a visit first as a young lawyer, then as a prisoner and finally as the president of South Africa. The prison was closed in 1983, leaving a scar on Johannesburg's metropolis - a bleak reminder of our painful past. It is unusual for a court to be built on the site of a prison, yet the Constitutional Court's judges deliberately chose the Old Fort - for the very reason of its history. This historically rich site - where densely populated and frenetic Hillbrow meets leafy and affluent Parktown and bureaucratic Braamfontein - is now Constitution Hill, the home of South Africa's highest court.
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