Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa January/February 2015 | Page 26

BUILDING 2 DESIGN DATA
Area: 15,681m2 rentable space
Office capacity: Approximately
900 persons.
Parking: A super-basement
across all 3 phases is envisaged
with a total of 3,200 parking
bays over 7 basement levels
Office floors: Ground plus 6
Access: Directly from the
parking and pedestrian access
from the piazza via a grand stair
COMPLETION DATES
Building 1: August 2013
Building 2: November 2014
Building 3: March 2017

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

EAST ELEVATION

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generated forms. The surfaces of the atrium
were also explored in Revit and contribute to
the light and lively internal space.
In the bathrooms, coloured matt and
polished tiles were used and the wall depth
fluctuates to create a varied surface. The
vanities were custom-designed to imitate
the overall volumetrics of the project.
Paragon Architects was commissioned
to design all three buildings and the piazza.

Building 1 was completed in 2013, which
formed the first boundary of the future
piazza, and created a canvas from which
to work. Working with generated site line
analyses and sun studies, the conceptual
design chiselled away at the sculptural
forms to generate refined massing and bring
sunlight into the public space, ess [